Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 88
“Well, if evil is to be, it will come.”
Who acts: evil · What happens: be, come
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evil), 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 | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 12 come | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 is | mark |
| 5 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 be | mark |
| 8 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 is | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 is | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | evil | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be in a quote | to-infinitive | evil not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | future | evil | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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