Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 32
“I have a kerchief: if you shake it to the right three times a lofty bridge rises and the fires cannot overreach it.”
Who acts: Koshchéy, you, lofty bridge, fires · What happens: have, shake, rise, not overreach · To what, where: kerchief, right three times, bridge
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 (Koshchéy, you, lofty bridge, fires), 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 | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kerchief | det |
| 5 | kerchief | kerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 shake | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 shake | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 shake | nsubj |
| 9 | shake | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | parataxis |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 shake | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 times | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 times | det |
| 13 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 times | amod |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 times | nummod |
| 15 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shake | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bridge | det |
| 17 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bridge | amod |
| 18 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rises | nsubj |
| 19 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 times | acl:relcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 overreach | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fires | det |
| 22 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 overreach | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 overreach | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 overreach | advmod |
| 25 | overreach | overreach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 shake | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 overreach | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Koshchéy | a kerchief | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kerchief=Patient | ||||
| 2 | shake a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | kerchief | time | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | rise in a quote | present | a lofty bridge | the right three times not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not overreach in a quote | can | the fires | bridge | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
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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