Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 122
Heavy are the tasks which the Bába Yagá has given me, and she threatens to eat me up if I don’t carry them all out.
Who acts: Heavy, Yagá, I · What happens: be, give, threaten, eat up, not carry out · To what, where: tasks, Bába Yagá, me, kvas
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heavy, Yagá, 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 | Heavy | heavy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tasks | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tasks | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tasks | det |
| 4 | tasks | task | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 given | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Yagá | det |
| 7 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Yagá | compound |
| 8 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 given | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 given | aux |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 tasks | acl:relcl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 given | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 threatens | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 threatens | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 threatens | nsubj |
| 15 | threatens | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tasks | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 eat | mark |
| 17 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 threatens | xcomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 eat | obj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 eat | compound:prt |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 carry | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 carry | nsubj |
| 22 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 carry | aux |
| 23 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 carry | advmod |
| 24 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 eat | advcl |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 carry | obj |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 27 | out | out | ADV | _ | 24 carry | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tasks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Heavy | the tasks | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | present · perfect · passive | the Bába Yagá | me | the tasks obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | threaten | present | Yagá | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | eat up not said to happen | to-infinitive | Yagá not said here | me | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not carry out a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | I | kvas | out property | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
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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