Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 97
“If you will I can aid you in your trouble; I will collect all this herd, only on condition that you give me what you do not know of at home.”
Who acts: Tsar, you, your · What happens: aid, collect, give, not know, trouble · To what, where: you, trouble, herd, condition, Tsar
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 (Tsar, you, your), 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 | _ | 7 aid | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 will | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 will | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 aid | aux |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 aid | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 aid | aux |
| 7 | aid | aid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 aid | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 trouble | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 11 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 aid | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 collect | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 collect | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 collect | aux |
| 15 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 aid | conj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 herd | det:predet |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 herd | det |
| 18 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 collect | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 condition | punct |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 condition | advmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 condition | case |
| 22 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 collect | obl |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 give | obj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 give | nsubj |
| 25 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 condition | acl:relcl |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 give | iobj |
| 27 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 know | obj |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 know | nsubj |
| 29 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 know | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 know | advmod |
| 31 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 give | advcl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 home | case |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 home | case |
| 34 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 know | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 aid | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 aid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aid in a quote | can · future | the Tsar = tsar | you | your trouble | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | collect in a quote | future | the Tsar = tsar | all herd | condition | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme | |||
| 3 | give in a quote | present | you | condition | the Tsar = tsar | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient that=Theme | |||
| 4 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | you | of home; what obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | trouble in a quote | your | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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