Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 92
I should be very glad to have some rest; but unless I die, earth will not take me up; and you, discharged soldier, are guilty of an unforgivable sin in God’s eyes.
Who acts: I, earth, you · What happens: be, have, die, not take up, discharge · To what, where: rest, 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 (I, earth, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 glad | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 glad | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 glad | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 glad | advmod |
| 5 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 have | mark |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 glad | xcomp |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 rest | det |
| 9 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 take | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 take | cc |
| 12 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 14 die | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 die | nsubj |
| 14 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 take | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 die | punct |
| 16 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 take | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 take | advmod |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 glad | advcl |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 take | obj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 take | compound:prt |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 guilty | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 you | cc |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 guilty | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 soldier | punct |
| 26 | discharged | discharge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 soldier | amod |
| 27 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 you | appos |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 soldier | punct |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 guilty | cop |
| 30 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 glad | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 sin | case |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 sin | det |
| 33 | unforgivable | unforgivable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 sin | amod |
| 34 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 guilty | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 eyes | case |
| 36 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 36 God | case |
| 38 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 sin | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | should | I | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | I not said here | some rest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient | ||||
| 3 | die a condition, not said to happen | present | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | not take up | future | earth | me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||||
| 5 | discharge | participle | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is | present | you | of a unforgivable sin in God's eyes; guilty property | tree rules |
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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