Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 85
And whosoever goes to the left, he shall himself be slain, but his horse shall have life and be healthy.”
Who acts: whosoever, word, horse · What happens: go, be, have · To what, where: left, life
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 (whosoever, word, horse), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 goes | cc |
| 2 | whosoever | whosoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 left | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 left | det |
| 6 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 slain | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 slain | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 slain | aux |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 slain | nsubj |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 slain | cop |
| 12 | slain | slain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 goes | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 have | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 horse | nmod:poss |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | aux |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 slain | parataxis |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 healthy | cc |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 healthy | cop |
| 22 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 have | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 slain | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | whosoever | the left | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to left=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is | shall | word | slain property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | shall | word's horse | life | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | infinitive | word's horse not said here | healthy property | 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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