Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 96
You must take the Bird of Light, but you must not touch the golden cage, or they will capture you at once.”
Who acts: You, Tsar · What happens: take, not touch, capture · To what, where: Bird, golden cage, you
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, Tsar), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Bird | det |
| 5 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Light | case |
| 7 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Bird | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 touch | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 touch | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 touch | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 touch | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 touch | advmod |
| 13 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cage | det |
| 15 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cage | amod |
| 16 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 touch | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 capture | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 capture | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 capture | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 capture | aux |
| 21 | capture | capture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 touch | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 capture | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 once | case |
| 24 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 21 capture | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | must | You | the Bird of Light | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bird=Destination | ||||
| 2 | not touch | must | you | the golden cage | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cage=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | capture | future | Tsar | you | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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