Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 63

He who captures it alive, I will in my lifetime give him the half of my kingdom, and at my death he shall have it all.”

Who acts: reward, I, lifetime, my · What happens: capture, in, give, have, die · To what, where: BIRD, half, reward, death

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 (reward, I, lifetime, my), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 captures	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 captures	nsubj
3	captures	capture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 in	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 captures	obj
5	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 captures	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 captures	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 in	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 in	aux
9	in	in	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 lifetime	nmod:poss
11	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	nsubj
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 in	ccomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 give	iobj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 half	det
15	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 give	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 kingdom	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 kingdom	nmod:poss
18	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 half	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 have	cc
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 death	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 death	nmod:poss
23	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
25	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 have	aux
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 in	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 have	obj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 it	det
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 in	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 in	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	capture	present	reward	BIRD			who nsubj; alive property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	in	future	I					tree rules
3	give	infinitive	my lifetime	the half of my kingdom	reward			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient half=Theme
4	have	shall	reward	BIRD		my death		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	die		my					nom death «event intransitive»: 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: «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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 63

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 63