Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 77
Do not be afraid, Prince Vladímir; whatever comes I will make friends with him.”
Who acts: you, whatever, I · What happens: do, not be, come, make · To what, where: friends
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 (you, whatever, I), 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 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 afraid | advmod |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 afraid | cop |
| 4 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Do | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Vladímir | punct |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Vladímir | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Vladímir | Vladímir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 afraid | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 comes | punct |
| 9 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 comes | nsubj |
| 10 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Do | parataxis |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 make | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 make | aux |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 comes | acl:relcl |
| 14 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 make | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 make | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | infinitive | Vladímir Prince obl; afraid property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | come | present | whatever | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make | future | I | friends | with Vladímir | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Product |
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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