Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 79
“If I didn’t know how I should not have summoned you.”
Who acts: Evil Spirit · What happens: not know, not summon · To what, where: 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 (Evil Spirit), 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 | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 know | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 know | advmod |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 summoned | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 summoned | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 summoned | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 summoned | advmod |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 summoned | aux |
| 12 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 know | ccomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 summoned | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | past · do-support | the Evil Spirit = spirit | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not summon in a quote | should · perfect | the Evil Spirit = spirit | you | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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