Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 54

If thou canst bend this bow in the presence of these my guests, thou shalt have my daughter!"

Who acts: thou · What happens: bend, have · To what, where: bow, presence, daughter

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou), 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 bend	mark
2	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 bend	nsubj
3	canst	can	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	4 bend	aux
4	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 have	advcl
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 bow	det
6	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bend	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 presence	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 presence	det
9	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bend	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 guests	case
11	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 guests	det
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 guests	nmod:poss
13	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 presence	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bend	punct
15	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 have	nsubj
16	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	17 have	aux
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 daughter	nmod:poss
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	obj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend a condition, not said to happen	can	thou	this bow		the presence of my guests			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme in presence=Location
2	have	shall	thou	my daughter					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

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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