Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 121
“Well, if you will not let me in to be tortured, at least give me two hundred souls.
Who acts: you · What happens: not let in, torture, not give · To what, where: soldier, hundred souls, least
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 let | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 let | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 let | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 let | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 let | advmod |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 let | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 tortured | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 tortured | aux:pass |
| 13 | tortured | torture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 let | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 least | case |
| 16 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 give | obl |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 give | iobj |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 hundred | compound |
| 20 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 souls | nummod |
| 21 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 give | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let in in a quote | future | you | soldier | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | torture in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | you not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 3 | not give in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | hundred souls | soldier | least | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient soul=Theme at least=Asset |
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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