Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 54

If you can guard my mares, I will give you a knightly horse; if you cannot, do not be angry, but your head must also lie on the last of the stakes.”

Who acts: you, I, head · What happens: guard, give, not be, lie · To what, where: mares, knightly horse, you, last

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 (you, I, head), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 guard	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 guard	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 guard	aux
4	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 give	advcl
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mares	nmod:poss
6	mares	mare	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 guard	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 guard	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 give	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 give	aux
10	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 give	iobj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 horse	det
13	knightly	knightly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 horse	amod
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 give	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 can	punct
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 can	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 can	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 give	advcl
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 can	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 angry	punct
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 angry	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 angry	advmod
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 angry	cop
24	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 give	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lie	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 lie	cc
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 head	nmod:poss
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lie	nsubj
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 lie	aux
30	also	also	ADV	_	31 lie	advmod
31	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 give	conj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 last	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 last	det
34	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lie	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 stakes	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 stakes	det
37	stakes	stake	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 last	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	guard a condition, not said to happen	can	you		my mares			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mare=Beneficiary
2	give	future	I	a knightly horse	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient horse=Theme
3	not is	infinitive · do-support					angry property	tree rules
4	lie	must	your head			the last of the stakes		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on last=Location

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 24, sentence 54

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 54