Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 6
“It would be possible to sow barley and to wait until it grows up, reap it, thresh it, to brew beer, drink it until you were drunk, sleep out your sleep and then to go on the hunt, and we should still succeed.”
Who acts: It, jade, you, we, your · What happens: be, sow, wait, grow up, reap, thresh · To what, where: barley, jade, beer, sleep, hunt · 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 (It, jade, you, we), 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 possible | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 possible | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 possible | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 possible | cop |
| 5 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 sow | mark |
| 7 | sow | sow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 possible | csubj |
| 8 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sow | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wait | cc |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 wait | mark |
| 11 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sow | conj |
| 12 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 14 grows | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 grows | nsubj |
| 14 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 wait | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 grows | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reap | punct |
| 17 | reap | reap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wait | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 reap | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thresh | punct |
| 20 | thresh | thresh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 reap | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thresh | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 brew | punct |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 brew | mark |
| 24 | brew | brew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 thresh | conj |
| 25 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 brew | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 drink | punct |
| 27 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wait | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 drink | obj |
| 29 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 32 drunk | mark |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 drunk | nsubj |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 drunk | cop |
| 32 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 drink | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sleep | punct |
| 34 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 wait | parataxis |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 sleep | compound:prt |
| 36 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 37 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sleep | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 go | cc |
| 39 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 41 go | advmod |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 go | mark |
| 41 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 34 sleep | conj |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 hunt | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 hunt | det |
| 44 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 go | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 succeed | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 succeed | cc |
| 47 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 50 succeed | nsubj |
| 48 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 succeed | aux |
| 49 | still | still | ADV | _ | 50 succeed | advmod |
| 50 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sow | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 possible | punct |
| 52 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | would | It | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sow in a quote | to-infinitive | barley | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent barley=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wait in a quote | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | grow up in a quote | present | jade | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | reap in a quote | infinitive | jade | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 6 | thresh in a quote | infinitive | jade | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | brew in a quote | to-infinitive | beer | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Product | |||||
| 8 | drink in a quote | infinitive | jade | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 9 | is in a quote | past | you | drunk property | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | sleep out in a quote | infinitive | your sleep | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Theme | |||||
| 11 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | the hunt | then | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on hunt=Location | ||||
| 12 | succeed in a quote | should | we | still | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 13 | 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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