Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 145
“If there were a log here one hundred _puds_, I could throw it higher than the clouds on high.”
Who acts: one hundred, Woodsprite · What happens: be, throw
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 (one hundred, Woodsprite), 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 | _ | 7 here | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 were | mark |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 were | expl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 here | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 log | det |
| 6 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 were | nsubj |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 hundred | compound |
| 9 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 here | nsubj |
| 10 | _ | _ | ADP | _ | 11 puds | case |
| 11 | puds | pud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 here | obl |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 here | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 throw | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 throw | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 throw | aux |
| 16 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 here | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 higher | nsubj |
| 18 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 throw | advmod |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 clouds | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 clouds | det |
| 21 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 higher | obl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 high | case |
| 23 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 higher | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 throw | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | one hundred | _ puds; here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | throw in a quote | could | the Woodsprite = woodsprite | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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