Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 6
"Now mind, fool! obey our wives, and pay them respect as if they were your own mothers.
Who acts: mind, wives · What happens: obey, pay, respect, be · To what, where: wives
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mind, wives), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 mind | advmod |
| 3 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 obey | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fool | punct |
| 5 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mind | appos |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 7 | obey | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wives | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 obey | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pay | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pay | cc |
| 12 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 obey | parataxis |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pay | obj |
| 14 | respect | respect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 pay | xcomp |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 mothers | case |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 mothers | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 mothers | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 mothers | cop |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mothers | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 mothers | amod |
| 21 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 respect | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 obey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey in a quote | present | mind | our wives | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pay in a quote | infinitive | wives = wife | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | respect in a quote | infinitive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | wives = wife | as your own mothers | 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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