Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 89
Will you let me cure the Tsarévna, and if I do not succeed, have a second noose got ready for my neck: one for me and one for the pope.”
Who acts: you, me, I, second noose · What happens: let, cure, not succeed, have, get · To what, where: me, Tsarévna
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, me, I, second noose), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 let | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Tsarévna | det |
| 7 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cure | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 have | cc |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 succeed | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 succeed | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 succeed | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 succeed | advmod |
| 14 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 have | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 succeed | punct |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 noose | det |
| 18 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 noose | amod |
| 19 | noose | noose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 got | nsubj |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | ccomp |
| 21 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 got | xcomp |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 neck | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 neck | nmod:poss |
| 24 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ready | obl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 one | punct |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 neck | appos |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 me | case |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 one | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 one | cc |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 one | conj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 pope | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 pope | det |
| 33 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 one | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | future | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cure | infinitive | me not said here | the Tsarévna | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer tsarévna=Source | ||||
| 3 | not succeed a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | I | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | get | past | a second noose | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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