Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 153

“Yes, certainly: if any one were to make a pile of aspen wood, one hundred cartloads in all, and to burn me on the pile, it can be done; then I should be overcome.

Who acts: one · What happens: be, make, burn, do, overcome · To what, where: pile, soldier, one

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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	_	41 overcome	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	41 overcome	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	2 Yes	advmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	41 overcome	mark
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 overcome	nsubj:pass
9	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 one	acl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 make	mark
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 were	xcomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pile	det
13	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 wood	case
15	aspen	aspen	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wood	compound
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pile	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cartloads	punct
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 hundred	compound
19	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 cartloads	nummod
20	cartloads	cartload	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wood	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 all	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 cartloads	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 burn	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 burn	cc
25	to	to	PART	_	26 burn	mark
26	burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 make	parataxis
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 burn	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 pile	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pile	det
30	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 burn	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 done	punct
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 done	nsubj:pass
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 done	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 done	aux:pass
35	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 burn	parataxis
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 overcome	punct
37	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 overcome	advmod
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 overcome	nsubj
39	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 overcome	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 overcome	aux:pass
41	overcome	overcome	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 overcome	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	past	any one not said here					tree rules
2	make in a quote	to-infinitive	any one not said here	a pile of aspen wood and hundred cartloads in all				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pile=Product
3	burn in a quote	to-infinitive		the soldier = soldier	the pile			tree rules
4	do in a quote	can · passive		pile				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
5	overcome in a quote	should · passive		any one		then	I nsubj	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 153

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 153