Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 113
If you will do me this service, if you will go across thrice nine kingdoms into the thrice-tenth realm, and will there obtain me from Tsar Afrón the golden-maned horse, I will forgive your sin, and I will give you the Bird of Light, and will do you great honour.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: do, go, obtain, forgive, give · To what, where: service, me, thrice nine kingdoms, Tsar Afrón, sin, Bird
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), 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 do | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | advcl |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | iobj |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 service | det |
| 7 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | across | across | ADP | _ | 16 kingdoms | case |
| 14 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 kingdoms | amod |
| 15 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 kingdoms | nummod |
| 16 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 go | obl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 realm | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 realm | det |
| 19 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tenth | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 thrice | punct |
| 21 | tenth | tenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 realm | amod |
| 22 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 obtain | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 obtain | cc |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 obtain | aux |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 obtain | advmod |
| 27 | obtain | obtain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | parataxis |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 obtain | obj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 Afrón | case |
| 30 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Afrón | compound |
| 31 | Afrón | Afrón | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 obtain | obl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 horse | det |
| 33 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 horse | amod |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 golden | punct |
| 35 | maned | maned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 horse | amod |
| 36 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 obtain | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 forgive | punct |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 forgive | nsubj |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 forgive | aux |
| 40 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 obtain | conj |
| 41 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 sin | nmod:poss |
| 42 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 forgive | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 give | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 give | cc |
| 45 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 give | nsubj |
| 46 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 give | aux |
| 47 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 forgive | conj |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 47 give | iobj |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 Bird | det |
| 50 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 give | iobj |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 Light | case |
| 52 | Light | Light | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 Bird | nmod |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 do | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 do | cc |
| 55 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 56 do | aux |
| 56 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 give | parataxis |
| 57 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 56 do | obj |
| 58 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 honour | amod |
| 59 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 do | obj |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 61 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen | future | you | this service | me | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | future | you | thrice nine kingdoms | into the tenth realm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme across kingdom=Initial_Location into realm=Destination | |||
| 3 | obtain | future | me | Tsar Afrón; there | the golden maned horse obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | forgive | future | I | your sin | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sin=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give | future | I | the Bird of Light | you iobj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bird=Theme | |||
| 6 | do | future | you | great honour obj | 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 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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