Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 139
Whoever guesses it I will give him my beloved daughter as a wife and a half of my kingdom as a dowry.”
Who acts: Whoever, I · What happens: guess, give · To what, where: riddle, beloved daughter, king · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Whoever, I), 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 | Whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 guesses | nsubj |
| 2 | guesses | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 guesses | obj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 give | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | aux |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 guesses | ccomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 daughter | amod |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 wife | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wife | det |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 half | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 half | det |
| 16 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 13 wife | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 kingdom | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 19 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 half | nmod |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 dowry | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 dowry | det |
| 22 | dowry | dowry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 guesses | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 guesses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | present | Whoever | riddle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | future | I | my beloved daughter | king | as a wife and a half of my kingdom; as a dowry | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient daughter=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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