Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 46
“If you wish my sister, I will not say you nay: take her with God’s blessing.”
Who acts: you, Iván, God · What happens: wish, not say, take, bless · To what, where: sister, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Iván, God), 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 | _ | 11 say | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 wish | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 say | advcl |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sister | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wish | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 say | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 say | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 say | advmod |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 say | obj |
| 13 | nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 11 say | obj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 say | parataxis |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 blessing | case |
| 18 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 God | case |
| 20 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 say | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | my sister | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sister=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not say speech: assert in a quote | future | Iván | you | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme nay=Manner | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | Sister | with God's blessing | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | ||||
| 4 | bless in a quote | God | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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