Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 108

Vikhor always quaffs the Strong Water, and places it on the right-hand side; therefore you must deceive him, or you will never be able to hold out against him."

Who acts: Vikhor, you · What happens: quaff, deceive, not be, hold out · To what, where: Strong Water, hand side, Vikhor

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. 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	Vikhor	Vikhor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 quaffs	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 quaffs	advmod
3	quaffs	quaff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Water	det
5	Strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Water	amod
6	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 quaffs	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 side	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 side	cc
9	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 side	nsubj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 side	nsubj
11	on	on	ADP	_	16 side	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 side	det
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hand	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 right	punct
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 side	compound
16	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 quaffs	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 deceive	punct
18	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	21 deceive	advmod
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 deceive	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 deceive	aux
21	deceive	deceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 quaffs	parataxis
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 deceive	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 able	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 able	cc
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 able	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 able	aux
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 able	advmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 able	cop
29	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 deceive	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 hold	mark
31	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 able	xcomp
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 hold	compound:prt
33	against	against	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 hold	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 deceive	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 deceive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	quaff	present	Vikhor	the Strong Water	the hand side	always property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2	deceive	must	you	Vikhor		therefore property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	not is	future	you			able property	tree rules
4	hold out	to-infinitive	you not said here			against Vikhor	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against he=Location

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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