Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 112

If she be dead, show us her grave; if she be living, tell us where to find her."

Who acts: Vikhor, you · What happens: be, show, live, tell, find · To what, where: grave, us, Vikhor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vikhor, you), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 dead	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dead	nsubj
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 dead	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 show	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct
6	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 show	iobj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 grave	nmod:poss
9	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 show	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 living	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 living	nsubj
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 living	aux
14	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 tell	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 living	punct
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 show	parataxis
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 find	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 find	mark
20	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tell	xcomp
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 find	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	Vikhor			dead property	tree rules
2	show	imperative	you not said here	Vikhor's grave	us		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient grave=Topic
3	live a condition, not said to happen	infinitive · progressive	Vikhor				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive			us		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic
5	find not said to happen	to-infinitive		Vikhor			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic

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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