Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 75
“Well, I will give it you if you will tell me where you have been and what you have done.”
Who acts: corpse, you · What happens: give, tell, do · To what, where: lid, you, corpse · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (corpse, 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 | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 give | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 give | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | aux |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 give | obj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 tell | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 tell | aux |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 give | advcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | iobj |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 done | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 done | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 done | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 done | aux:pass |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 done | cc |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 done | obj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 done | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 done | aux |
| 22 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 tell | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | future | the corpse = corpse | lid | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient it=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | the corpse = corpse | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present · perfect · passive | you | what obj | 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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