Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 24

Whatever suffering may come over you, do your duty; read the book, keep it close to you that they may not tear it from you, otherwise you will not remain alive.

Who acts: suffering, cocks, you · What happens: come over, do, read, keep, not tear, not remain · To what, where: you, duty, book

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (suffering, cocks, you), 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	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 suffering	det:predet
2	suffering	suffering	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	over	over	ADV	_	6 you	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 come	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 duty	nmod:poss
10	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 read	punct
12	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 come	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 book	det
14	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 read	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 keep	punct
16	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 read	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 keep	obj
18	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 keep	xcomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 you	case
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 close	obl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 tear	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tear	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 tear	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 tear	advmod
25	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 read	advcl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tear	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 you	case
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 tear	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 remain	punct
30	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	34 remain	advmod
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 remain	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 remain	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 remain	advmod
34	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 read	conj
35	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 remain	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come over	may	whatever suffering	you		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	infinitive	whatever suffering not said here	your duty		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality
3	read	infinitive		the book		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic
4	keep	infinitive		book	close property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	not tear	may	cocks = cock	book	from you	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient from you=Co-Patient
6	not remain	future	you		alive, otherwise property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 24

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 24