Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 111
If you had come to me, I should have given you the Bird of Light as an honour; but, now, would it be well, were I to send you into all kingdoms to proclaim how you came into my realm and dealt dishonourably?
Who acts: you, I, BIRD · What happens: come, give, be, send, proclaim, deal · To what, where: me, Bird, you, kingdoms, realm
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, BIRD), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 come | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 given | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 given | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 given | aux |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 given | aux |
| 11 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 given | iobj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Bird | det |
| 14 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 given | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Light | case |
| 16 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Bird | nmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 honour | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 honour | det |
| 19 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 given | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 send | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 send | cc |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 but | punct |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 send | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 well | punct |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 well | aux |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 well | nsubj |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 well | cop |
| 28 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 now | fixed |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 well | punct |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 send | aux |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 send | nsubj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 send | mark |
| 33 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 given | parataxis |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 send | iobj |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 kingdoms | case |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 kingdoms | det |
| 37 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 send | obl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 proclaim | mark |
| 39 | proclaim | proclaim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 send | advcl |
| 40 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 42 came | advmod |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 came | nsubj |
| 42 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 proclaim | advcl |
| 43 | into | into | ADP | _ | 45 realm | case |
| 44 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 realm | nmod:poss |
| 45 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 came | obl |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 dealt | cc |
| 47 | dealt | deal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 came | conj |
| 48 | dishonourably | dishonourably | ADV | _ | 47 dealt | advmod |
| 49 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | you | me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | give | should · perfect | I | the Bird of Light | you | as a honour | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bird=Theme | ||
| 3 | is | would | BIRD | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | send | past | I | you | all kingdoms | now | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||
| 5 | proclaim | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | come | past | you | my realm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into realm=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | deal | past | you not said here | dishonourably property | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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