Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 99
“If God gave it you as you said, we will once more ask the first person who meets us who is right.
Who acts: God, you, we, first person · What happens: give, say, ask, meet, be · To what, where: money, you, first person, us · 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 (God, you, we, first person), 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 | _ | 4 gave | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 gave | mark |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | obj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 said | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 ask | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 ask | aux |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 more | advmod |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 ask | advmod |
| 15 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 person | det |
| 17 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 person | amod |
| 18 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ask | obj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 meets | nsubj |
| 20 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 person | acl:relcl |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 meets | obj |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 right | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 right | cop |
| 24 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 meets | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | past | God | money | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient it=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | future | we | the first person | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent person=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | meet in a quote | present | the first person | us | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | who nsubj; right property | 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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