Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 60
I forgave you once before; a third guilt is unpardonable.
Who acts: I, third guilt · What happens: forgive, be · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, third guilt), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 forgave | nsubj |
| 2 | forgave | forgive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 forgave | obj |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 before | advmod |
| 5 | before | before | ADV | _ | 2 forgave | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 unpardonable | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 guilt | det |
| 8 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 guilt | amod |
| 9 | guilt | guilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 unpardonable | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 unpardonable | cop |
| 11 | unpardonable | unpardonable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 forgave | parataxis |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 forgave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forgive | past | I | you | before property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | a third guilt | unpardonable property | tree rules |
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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