Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 127
Satan replies, "If this be thy _zakon_, go hence therewith! to sever a _zakon_ is impossible."
Who acts: Satan, this · What happens: reply, be, go, sever · To what, where: zakon · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Satan, this), 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 | Satan | Satan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 replies | nsubj |
| 2 | replies | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 replies | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 5 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 zakon | mark |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 zakon | nsubj |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 zakon | cop |
| 8 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 zakon | nmod:poss |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 zakon | punct |
| 10 | zakon | zakon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | advcl |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 zakon | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 zakon | punct |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 replies | parataxis |
| 14 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 15 therewith | advmod |
| 15 | therewith | therewith | ADV | _ | 13 go | advmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 sever | mark |
| 18 | sever | sever | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 go | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 zakon | det |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 zakon | punct |
| 21 | zakon | zakon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sever | obj |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 impossible | punct |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 impossible | cop |
| 24 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 go | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 replies | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 replies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: express | present | Satan | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | this | thy zakon | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | therewith property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sever in a quote | to-infinitive | a zakon | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zakon=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | impossible 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/62/127/