Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 144
Go back home and ask your father to give you his best horse; mount that and ride away and follow your eyes if you would escape misfortune.”
Who acts: you, mount · What happens: go back, ask, give, ride away, follow, escape · To what, where: father, best horse, you, eyes, misfortune
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mount), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ask | cc |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 give | mark |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ask | xcomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 horse | nmod:poss |
| 12 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 horse | amod |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 mount | punct |
| 15 | mount | mount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 ride | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ride | cc |
| 18 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 mount | acl:relcl |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 ride | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 follow | cc |
| 21 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 ride | conj |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 follow | obj |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 escape | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 escape | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 escape | aux |
| 27 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 follow | advcl |
| 28 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 escape | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | imperative | you not said here | mount parataxis; home property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | your father | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | Father's best horse | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient horse=Theme | |||
| 4 | ride away | infinitive | mount | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | follow | infinitive | mount not said here | your eyes | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 6 | escape a condition, not said to happen | would | you | misfortune | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme misfortune=Initial_Location |
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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