Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 113
If thou doest my tasks, thou shalt have my daughter; but if thou doest them not, thou shalt lose thy head, and all thy suite shall perish with thee."
Who acts: thou, suite, my · What happens: do, have, not do, lose, perish, task · To what, where: tasks, daughter, daughters, head
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, 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 (thou, suite, my), 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 | _ | 3 doest | mark |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 doest | nsubj |
| 3 | doest | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | advcl |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tasks | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tasks | task | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 doest | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 doest | punct |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 have | nsubj |
| 8 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 lose | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 lose | cc |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 doest | mark |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 doest | nsubj |
| 16 | doest | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 lose | advcl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 doest | obj |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 doest | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 doest | punct |
| 20 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 lose | nsubj |
| 21 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 22 lose | aux |
| 22 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 have | conj |
| 23 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lose | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 perish | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 perish | cc |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 suite | det |
| 28 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 suite | nmod:poss |
| 29 | suite | suite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 perish | nsubj |
| 30 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 perish | aux |
| 31 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 lose | conj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 thee | case |
| 33 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 perish | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | thou | my tasks | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | have | shall | thou | my daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not do a condition, not said to happen | present | thou | daughters = daughter | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | lose | shall | thou | thy head | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | perish | shall | thy suite | with thee | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | task | my | nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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