Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 21
“If you will not give me to him, I will remain unmarried all my life and will seek no other man.”
Who acts: you, monster · What happens: not give, remain, unmarry, seek · To what, where: monster, life, other man
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, monster), 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 | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 give | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 give | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 give | advmod |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 give | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 remain | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 remain | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 remain | aux |
| 13 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 give | advcl |
| 14 | unmarried | unmarry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 remain | xcomp |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 life | det:predet |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 life | nmod:poss |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 unmarried | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 seek | cc |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 seek | aux |
| 20 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 give | conj |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 man | det |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seek | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give in a quote | future | you | monster | to father | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Theme to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | remain in a quote | future | monster | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | unmarry in a quote | participle | monster not said here | my life | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | seek in a quote | future | you not said here | no other man | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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