Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 71
“If you do not guard them, then your bold head shall hang on the pole.”
Who acts: you, bold head · What happens: not guard, hang · To what, where: tails, pole
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, bold 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 hang | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 guard | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 guard | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 guard | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 guard | advmod |
| 6 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hang | advcl |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 guard | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 guard | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 hang | advmod |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 head | amod |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hang | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 hang | aux |
| 14 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 pole | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pole | det |
| 17 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hang | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 hang | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 hang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not guard a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | you | tails = tail | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | hang in a quote | shall | your bold head | the pole | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on pole=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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