Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 129

Whatever you meet on the way, whether wild beast or bird that you would like to catch, just say to it: ‘Jump in here, beast or bird!’ and your wish will be carried out.”

Who acts: you, your · What happens: meet, like, catch, say, jump, carry out · To what, where: Whatever, way, wild beast, bird, beast, wish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, your), 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	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 meet	obj
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 meet	nsubj
3	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meet	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 beast	punct
8	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	10 beast	mark
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 beast	amod
10	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meet	parataxis
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 bird	cc
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 beast	conj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 like	obj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 like	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 like	aux
16	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 beast	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 catch	mark
18	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 like	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 say	punct
20	just	just	ADV	_	21 say	advmod
21	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 catch	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 say	obl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 Jump	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 Jump	punct
26	Jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 say	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 here	case
28	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 Jump	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 beast	punct
30	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Jump	obj
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 bird	cc
32	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 beast	conj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 beast	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 Jump	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 carried	cc
36	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 wish	nmod:poss
37	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 carried	nsubj:pass
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 carried	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 carried	aux:pass
40	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 Jump	conj
41	out	out	ADP	_	40 carried	compound:prt
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 beast	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 beast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	present	you	Whatever		the way	wild beast or bird parataxis	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Co-Agent
2	like	would	you	wild beast or bird				tree rules
3	catch not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		bird			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient
5	jump	infinitive	you not said here	beast or bird				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent beast=Theme in here=Trajectory
6	carry out	future · passive		your wish				vn act-114 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
7	wish		your					nom wish «feeling 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 12, sentence 129

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 129