Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 125
Some time went by, not too much, not too little, and the Arab Prince again wrote to the King, “If you do not give me your youngest daughter’s hand I will burn up all your kingdom and will take her prisoner.”
Who acts: time, Arab Prince, you, King · What happens: go by, write, not give, burn up, take · To what, where: King, hand, prisoner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, Arab Prince, you, King), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 went | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 much | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 much | advmod |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 little | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 little | advmod |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 little | advmod |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 much | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wrote | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wrote | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Prince | det |
| 16 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Prince | amod |
| 17 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 wrote | nsubj |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 wrote | advmod |
| 19 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 King | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 King | det |
| 22 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 wrote | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 burn | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 burn | punct |
| 25 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 give | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 give | nsubj |
| 27 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 give | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 give | advmod |
| 29 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 burn | advcl |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 give | iobj |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 32 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 33 daughter | amod |
| 33 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hand | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 33 daughter | case |
| 35 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 give | obj |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 burn | nsubj |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 burn | aux |
| 38 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wrote | ccomp |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 38 burn | compound:prt |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 kingdom | det:predet |
| 41 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 42 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 burn | parataxis |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 take | cc |
| 44 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 take | aux |
| 45 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 46 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 prisoner | nmod:poss |
| 47 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 take | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 45 take | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | some time | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | write | past | the Arab Prince | the King | again | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | not give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | you | your youngest daughter's hand | the King = king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient hand=Theme | |||
| 4 | burn up in a quote | future | the King = king | your kingdom parataxis | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 5 | take in a quote | future | some time not said here | daughter's prisoner | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prisoner=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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