Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 65
“Listen, Vóron Vóronovich: I will not touch your son if you will do me a service; to fly across thrice-nine lands into the thrice-tenth realm and bring me the waters of Life and Death.”
Who acts: you, Dmítri · What happens: listen, not touch, do, fly, bring · To what, where: Vóron, son, service, Dmítri, thrice nine lands, waters
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, Dmítri), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 2 | Listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 4 | Vóron | Vóron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Listen | obl |
| 5 | Vóronovich | Vóronovich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Vóron | flat |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 touch | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 touch | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 touch | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 touch | advmod |
| 10 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Listen | conj |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 touch | obj |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 touch | advcl |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 do | iobj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 service | det |
| 19 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 fly | punct |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 fly | mark |
| 22 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 touch | conj |
| 23 | across | across | ADP | _ | 27 lands | case |
| 24 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 lands | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 thrice | punct |
| 26 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 lands | nummod |
| 27 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fly | obl |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 realm | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 realm | det |
| 30 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 tenth | amod |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 thrice | punct |
| 32 | tenth | tenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 realm | amod |
| 33 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fly | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 bring | cc |
| 35 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 touch | conj |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 bring | obj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 waters | det |
| 38 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 bring | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Life | case |
| 40 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 waters | nmod |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 Death | cc |
| 42 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Life | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Vóron | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not touch in a quote | future | Dmítri | your son | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme son=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | a service | Dmítri | tree rules | |||
| 4 | fly in a quote | to-infinitive | Dmítri not said here | thrice nine lands | into the tenth realm result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into realm=Result | |||
| 5 | bring in a quote | infinitive | Dmítri not said here | the waters of Life and Death | Dmítri | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination water=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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