Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 100
Of a surety it will utterly destroy my brother, and then he will no longer brag of his riches before me!"
Who acts: surety, brother · What happens: destroy, brag · To what, where: brother
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (surety, brother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 3 surety | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 surety | det |
| 3 | surety | surety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 destroy | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 destroy | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 destroy | aux |
| 6 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 7 destroy | advmod |
| 7 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 destroy | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 brag | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 brag | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 brag | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 brag | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 brag | aux |
| 15 | no | no | ADV | _ | 16 longer | advmod |
| 16 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 brag | advmod |
| 17 | brag | brag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 destroy | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 riches | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 riches | nmod:poss |
| 20 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 brag | nmod |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 destroy | obl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 destroy | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 destroy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | future | surety | my brother | before me | of a surety; utterly property | vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument brother=Patient | ||
| 2 | brag speech: other | future | brother | then | of brother's riches; long property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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