Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 83
How can I, then, be thine?”
What happens: be · To what, where: thine
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: 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 then | advmod |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 then | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 then | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 I | punct |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 then | punct |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thine | cop |
| 8 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 then | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 thine | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 thine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | infinitive | thine | tree rules |
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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