Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 137
“On this sorry nag you will not do much, and still less if you go in your present guise.
Who acts: you · What happens: not do, go · To what, where: sorry nag, present guise
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 2 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 nag | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 nag | det |
| 4 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 nag | amod |
| 5 | nag | nag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | obl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 do | advmod |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 do | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 go | cc |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 less | advmod |
| 14 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 go | advmod |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | parataxis |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 guise | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 guise | nmod:poss |
| 20 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 guise | amod |
| 21 | guise | guise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | future | you | this sorry nag | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | your present guise | still | less property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in guise=Location |
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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