Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 57
If you do not say this, we will slay you at once.”
Who acts: you, we · What happens: not say, slay · To what, where: this, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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 | _ | 5 say | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 say | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 say | advmod |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 slay | advcl |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 say | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 slay | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 slay | aux |
| 10 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 slay | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 once | case |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 slay | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 slay | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 slay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | slay | future | we | you | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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