Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 112
If he were to wave his hand, three times over the dew, his hand would grow again,” said the second.
Who acts: first, hand · What happens: wave, grow, say · To what, where: hand, dew, second · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first, hand), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 wave | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wave | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wave | aux |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 wave | mark |
| 5 | wave | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 said | advcl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wave | punct |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 times | nummod |
| 10 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wave | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 dew | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dew | det |
| 13 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wave | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grow | punct |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grow | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 grow | aux |
| 18 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wave | conj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 grow | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wave | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wave | punct |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 second | det |
| 24 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 said | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave a condition, not said to happen | past | first | first's hand | the dew | time | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||
| 2 | grow | would | first's hand | again | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the second | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent second=Topic |
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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