Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 22
“But your sleep would have been very much longer if we had not been there,” answered the brothers-in-law.
Who acts: we, brothers, your · What happens: have, be, not be, answer, sleep · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (we, brothers, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 would | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 would | cc |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 4 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 would | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 would | xcomp |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 longer | cop |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 longer | advmod |
| 10 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 answered | advmod |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 there | mark |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 there | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 there | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 there | advmod |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 there | cop |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 longer | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 there | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 longer | punct |
| 19 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 brothers | det |
| 21 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 answered | obj |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 law | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 law | case |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 in | punct |
| 25 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brothers | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 would | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is in a quote | participle | long property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · perfect | we | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | the brothers and law | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | sleep in a quote | your | nom sleep «state 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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