Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 130
“Swear that you will never strike me with your hammer, and I will secure you such honour as your father had.
Who acts: you, Unholy Spirit, father · What happens: swear, not strike, secure, have · To what, where: Unholy Spirit, such honour, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Unholy Spirit, father), 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 | _ | 2 Swear | punct |
| 2 | Swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 strike | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 strike | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 strike | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 strike | advmod |
| 7 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Swear | ccomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 strike | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 hammer | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hammer | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strike | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 secure | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 secure | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 secure | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 secure | aux |
| 16 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Swear | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 secure | obj |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 honour | amod |
| 19 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 secure | obj |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 had | mark |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 father | nmod:poss |
| 22 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 secure | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Swear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not strike in a quote | future | you | the Unholy Spirit = spirit | with your hammer | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent i=Patient with hammer=Instrument | |||
| 3 | secure in a quote | future | the Unholy Spirit = spirit | such honour | you | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Precondition you=Beneficiary honour=Theme | |||
| 4 | have in a quote | past | your father | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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