Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 119
“He ought to dam it up well, and as soon as the water breaks through, throw in a sheaf of straw, and all your work would be no good.”
Who acts: water, work, your · What happens: dam up, break through, throw, be, work · To what, where: hole, sheaf
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 (water, work, your), 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 | _ | 5 dam | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ought | nsubj |
| 3 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 dam | aux |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 dam | mark |
| 5 | dam | dam | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dam | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 dam | compound:prt |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 dam | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 breaks | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 breaks | cc |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 soon | advmod |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 breaks | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 breaks | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 breaks | nsubj |
| 16 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dam | parataxis |
| 17 | through | through | ADV | _ | 16 breaks | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 throw | punct |
| 19 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 breaks | parataxis |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 sheaf | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sheaf | det |
| 22 | sheaf | sheaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 throw | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 straw | case |
| 24 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sheaf | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 good | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 good | cc |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 work | det:predet |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 work | nmod:poss |
| 29 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 good | nsubj |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 good | aux |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 good | cop |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 good | det |
| 33 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dam | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dam | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 dam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dam up in a quote | ought | hole | well property | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | ||||
| 2 | break through in a quote | present | the water | soon, through property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | throw in a quote | infinitive | a sheaf of straw | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in sheaf=Destination | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | would | your work | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | work in a quote | your | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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