Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 155
If you had not taken the stirrup, I should have forgotten all about it.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not take, forget · To what, where: stirrup
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 taken | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 taken | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 taken | advmod |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 forgotten | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stirrup | det |
| 7 | stirrup | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 taken | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 forgotten | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 forgotten | aux |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 forgotten | aux |
| 12 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 it | advmod |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 forgotten | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 forgotten | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | you | the stirrup | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stirrup=Theme | ||||
| 2 | forget | should · perfect | I | about stirrup | 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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