Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 63
So Iván Tsarévich passed that night; and next day Bába Yagá said to him, “Look, Iván Tsarévich, if you do not keep the mares well, if you lose one, then your false head shall nod up and down on the stake.”
Who acts: Iván, next day, Bába, false head · What happens: pass, say, look, not keep, lose, nod up · To what, where: Bába, Iván, mares, one, stake · 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 (Iván, next day, Bába, false 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 passed | advmod |
| 2 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Iván | flat |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 9 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 day | amod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 11 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 day | appos |
| 12 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Bába | flat |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Look | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Look | punct |
| 18 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Iván | punct |
| 20 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Look | obl |
| 21 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Iván | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 keep | punct |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 keep | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 keep | nsubj |
| 25 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 keep | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 keep | advmod |
| 27 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 Look | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 mares | det |
| 29 | mares | mare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 keep | obj |
| 30 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 keep | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 lose | punct |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 lose | mark |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 lose | nsubj |
| 34 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 keep | advcl |
| 35 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 lose | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 nod | punct |
| 37 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 42 nod | advmod |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 head | nmod:poss |
| 39 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 head | amod |
| 40 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 nod | nsubj |
| 41 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 nod | aux |
| 42 | nod | nod | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 Look | conj |
| 43 | up | up | ADP | _ | 42 nod | compound:prt |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 down | cc |
| 45 | down | down | ADV | _ | 43 up | conj |
| 46 | on | on | ADP | _ | 48 stake | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 stake | det |
| 48 | stake | stake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 nod | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
| 50 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Iván | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | next day | Bába | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | look in a quote | infinitive | Iván | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | not keep a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | Bába | the mares | well property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mare=Theme | |||
| 5 | lose a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Bába | one | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | nod up in a quote | shall | your false head | the stake | then | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=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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