Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 114
“What! if any one had any compassion on the lord, he would heal the daughter at once.
Who acts: one, Lord · What happens: have, heal · To what, where: compassion, daughter
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 (one, Lord), 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 | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 heal | obl |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 had | mark |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 What | advcl |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 compassion | det |
| 9 | compassion | compassion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 lord | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lord | det |
| 12 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 heal | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 heal | aux |
| 16 | heal | heal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 daughter | det |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heal | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 once | case |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 heal | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 heal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | any one | any compassion | on the lord | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compassion=Patient | |||
| 2 | heal in a quote | would | Lord | the daughter | What obl | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
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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