Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 106
And your work has not been in vain; such a beauty as Márya Moryévna might be sought for all over the world and you would not have found any other.”
Who acts: work, you, your · What happens: not be, seek, not find, work · To what, where: beauty, other
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (work, you, your), 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 | _ | 8 vain | cc |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 work | nmod:poss |
| 3 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vain | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 vain | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 vain | advmod |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 vain | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 vain | case |
| 8 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 sought | punct |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 beauty | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 beauty | det |
| 12 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sought | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 Márya | case |
| 14 | Márya | Márya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 beauty | nmod |
| 15 | Moryévna | Moryévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Márya | flat |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 sought | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sought | aux:pass |
| 18 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 vain | parataxis |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 world | case |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 world | advmod |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 world | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sought | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 found | cc |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 found | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 found | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 found | advmod |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 found | aux |
| 29 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 sought | conj |
| 30 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 other | det |
| 31 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 found | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 vain | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 vain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present · perfect | your work | vain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seek | might · passive | such beauty as Márya | for the world | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Location for world=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not find | would · perfect | you | any other | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Topic | ||||
| 4 | work | your | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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