Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 46
Do not give any one false measure or cheat; and if you shall grow rich, do not forget God, and to give alms to the poor, as I did time agone.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not give, grow, not forget, give, do · To what, where: any, God, alms, poor, time agone
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 (you, 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 | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 give | advmod |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 give | obj |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 measure | nummod |
| 6 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 measure | amod |
| 7 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 any | nmod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 cheat | cc |
| 9 | cheat | cheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 measure | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 grow | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 grow | cc |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 grow | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 grow | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 grow | aux |
| 15 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | conj |
| 16 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grow | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 forget | punct |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 forget | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 forget | advmod |
| 20 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 grow | conj |
| 21 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 forget | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 give | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 give | cc |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 give | mark |
| 25 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 grow | parataxis |
| 26 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 give | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 poor | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 poor | det |
| 29 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 give | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 did | punct |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 did | mark |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 did | nsubj |
| 33 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 give | advcl |
| 34 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 agone | compound |
| 35 | agone | agone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 did | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give | imperative · do-support | you not said here | any one false measure or cheat | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow a condition, not said to happen | shall | you | rich property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not forget | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | God | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive | alms | the poor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent alm=Theme to poor=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | do | past | I | time agone | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agone=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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