Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 6

And, however old a man might be, if he only ate one apple, he would be young once more.

Who acts: man, old · What happens: be, eat · To what, where: one apple

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 (man, old), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	20 young	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 old	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 young	nsubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 be	nsubj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 be	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 old	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ate	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 ate	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ate	nsubj
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 ate	advmod
13	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	conj
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 apple	nummod
15	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ate	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 old	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 young	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 young	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 young	cop
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 more	advmod
22	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 young	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 young	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive			however, old property	tree rules
2	eat a condition, not said to happen	past	man	one apple		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient
3	is	would	old		man nsubj; young property	tree rules

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 23, sentence 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 6