Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 32
Then the son began to consider: “If I do jump, possibly I shall kill him, possibly I shall not; anyhow I shall be done for.”
Who acts: son, poor man · What happens: begin, consider, jump, kill, do · To what, where: son, poor man
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, poor man), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 began | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 son | det |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 consider | mark |
| 6 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 began | xcomp |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 jump | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 jump | punct |
| 9 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 jump | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 jump | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 jump | aux |
| 12 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 consider | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kill | punct |
| 14 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 17 kill | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 kill | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 kill | aux |
| 17 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 jump | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 kill | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shall | punct |
| 20 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 22 shall | advmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 shall | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 jump | advcl |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 shall | advmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 done | punct |
| 25 | anyhow | anyhow | ADV | _ | 29 done | advmod |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 done | nsubj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 done | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 done | aux:pass |
| 29 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 began | conj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 done | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the son | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | consider | to-infinitive | the son not said here | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | jump a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | the poor man = man | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | shall | the poor man = man | son | possibly property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 5 | do in a quote | shall · passive | the poor man = man | anyhow property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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