Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 107
Do the same by me, otherwise life with her won’t be worth living.”
Who acts: you · What happens: do, not be, live · To what, where: same
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. 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 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 same | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Do | obj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Do | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 life | punct |
| 7 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 8 life | advmod |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Do | obl |
| 9 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 14 worth | mark |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 worth | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 worth | aux |
| 12 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 worth | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 worth | cop |
| 14 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Do | advcl |
| 15 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 worth | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | the same | by me; life obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | not is | future | you not said here | woman nmod:poss; worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | gerund | you not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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