Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 154

“I should be very glad to take you,” Vertodúb replied, “but, as soon as I have turned round all these oaks with all their roots, the hour will have come for me to die.”

Who acts: Vertodúb, hour · What happens: be, take, reply, turn, come, die · To what, where: you, oaks, roots · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Vertodúb, hour), 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	_	6 glad	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 glad	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 glad	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 glad	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 glad	advmod
6	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 replied	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 take	mark
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 glad	advcl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 take	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 glad	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 glad	punct
12	Vertodúb	Vertodúb	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 replied	nsubj
13	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 turned	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 turned	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 turned	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 but	punct
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 soon	advmod
19	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 turned	advmod
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 turned	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 turned	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 turned	aux
23	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 replied	parataxis
24	round	round	ADP	_	27 oaks	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 oaks	det:predet
26	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	27 oaks	det
27	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 turned	obl
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 roots	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 roots	det:predet
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 roots	nmod:poss
31	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 oaks	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 come	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 hour	det
34	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 come	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 come	aux
36	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 come	aux
37	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 roots	acl:relcl
38	for	for	SCONJ	_	41 die	mark
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 die	nsubj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 die	mark
41	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 come	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 turned	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	should	Vertodúb				glad property	tree rules
2	take in a quote	to-infinitive	Vertodúb not said here		you			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination
3	reply speech: assert	past	Vertodúb					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	turn in a quote	present · perfect	Vertodúb			all oaks with oaks's roots	soon property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme round oak=Trajectory
5	come in a quote	future · perfect	the hour	oaks's roots not said here				tree rules
6	die in a quote	to-infinitive	Vertodúb					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 154

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 154