Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 8
If the unholy powers have destroyed him, bring me his little bones.”
Who acts: you · What happens: destroy, bring · To what, where: unholy powers, little bones, me
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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 destroyed | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 powers | det |
| 3 | unholy | unholy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 powers | amod |
| 4 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 destroyed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 destroyed | aux |
| 6 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 bring | advcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 destroyed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 destroyed | punct |
| 9 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 bring | obj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bones | nmod:poss |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bones | amod |
| 13 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bring | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bring | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect · passive | the unholy powers | soldier obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | imperative | you not said here | soldier's little bones | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination bone=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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