Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 109
“Never mind!—your young man saw her, and if he understood how to manage the work, surely you, as the craftsman, understand!
Who acts: you, young man, man · What happens: not mind, see, understand, manage · To what, where: wife, work
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, young man, man), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 mind | advmod |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 man | nmod:poss |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mind | advcl |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 understood | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 understood | cc |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 understood | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 understood | nsubj |
| 15 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | conj |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 manage | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 manage | mark |
| 18 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 understood | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 work | det |
| 20 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 manage | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 you | punct |
| 22 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 23 you | advmod |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 manage | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 craftsman | punct |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 craftsman | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 craftsman | det |
| 27 | craftsman | craftsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 manage | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 understand | punct |
| 29 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 manage | parataxis |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | past | your young man | wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | understand a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | manage in a quote | to-infinitive | man not said here | the work | as the craftsman; you parataxis | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | |||
| 5 | understand in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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