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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 107

"If thou dost desire to become superior to thy brother," said his father, "speed swiftly by hidden ways, through dark untrodden forests, and if thou canst outstrip thy brother, he will have to be thy servant!"

Who acts: thou, father, Dnieper · What happens: do, become, say, outstrip, have, be · To what, where: desire, brother, servant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, father, Dnieper), 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

punctmarknsubjadvclobjmarkaclxcompcasenmod:possoblpunctpunctnmod:possobjpunctpunctconjadvmodcaseamodoblpunctcaseamodamodconjpunctccmarknsubjauxadvclnmod:possobjpunctnsubjauxccompmarkcopnmod:possxcomppunctpunctroot"PUNCTIfSCONJthouPRONdostVERBdesireNOUNtoPARTbecomeVERBsuperiorADJtoADPthyPRONbrotherNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTsaidVERBhisPRONfatherNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTspeedNOUNswiftlyADVbyADPhiddenADJwaysNOUN,PUNCTthroughADPdarkADJuntroddenADJforestsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJifSCONJthouPRONcanstAUXoutstripVERBthyPRONbrotherNOUN,PUNCThePRONwillAUXhaveVERBtoPARTbeAUXthyPRONservantNOUN!PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_14 saidpunct
2IfifSCONJ_4 dostmark
3thouthouPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch4 dostnsubj
4dostdoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 saidadvcl
5desiredesireNOUNNumber=Sing4 dostobj
6totoPART_7 becomemark
7becomebecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf5 desireacl
8superiorsuperiorADJDegree=Pos7 becomexcomp
9totoADP_11 brothercase
10thythyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch11 brothernmod:poss
11brotherbrotherNOUNNumber=Sing8 superiorobl
12,,PUNCT_4 dostpunct
13""PUNCT_4 dostpunct
14saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
15hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 fathernmod:poss
16fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing14 saidobj
17,,PUNCT_19 speedpunct
18""PUNCT_19 speedpunct
19speedspeedNOUNNumber=Sing16 fatherconj
20swiftlyswiftlyADV_14 saidadvmod
21bybyADP_23 wayscase
22hiddenhiddenADJDegree=Pos23 waysamod
23wayswayNOUNNumber=Plur14 saidobl
24,,PUNCT_28 forestspunct
25throughthroughADP_28 forestscase
26darkdarkADJDegree=Pos28 forestsamod
27untroddenuntroddenADJDegree=Pos28 forestsamod
28forestsforestNOUNNumber=Plur23 waysconj
29,,PUNCT_40 havepunct
30andandCCONJ_40 havecc
31ififSCONJ_34 outstripmark
32thouthouPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch34 outstripnsubj
33canstcanAUXStyle=Arch VerbForm=Fin34 outstripaux
34outstripoutstripVERBVerbForm=Inf40 haveadvcl
35thythyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch36 brothernmod:poss
36brotherbrotherNOUNNumber=Sing34 outstripobj
37,,PUNCT_34 outstrippunct
38hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs40 havensubj
39willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin40 haveaux
40havehaveVERBVerbForm=Inf14 saidccomp
41totoPART_44 servantmark
42bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf44 servantcop
43thythyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch44 servantnmod:poss
44servantservantNOUNNumber=Sing40 havexcomp
45!!PUNCT_40 havepunct
46""PUNCT_40 havepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1do a condition, not said to happen, in a quotepresentthoudesirevn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Eventuality
2become in a quoteto-infinitivethou not said heredesire not said heresuperior propertyvn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3say speech: expresspastDnieper's father and speedby hidden ways and dark untrodden forests; swiftly propertyvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4outstrip a condition, not said to happen, in a quotecanthouthy brothervn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot brother=Theme
5have in a quotefutureDniepervn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6is a in a quoteto-infinitiveDnieper not said herethy servanttree 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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