Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 159
“Oh, He told me from whomsoever you take or steal you will cheat and perjure yourself; that will be your trade.”
Who acts: Lord, you, that · What happens: tell, take, steal, cheat, perjure, be · To what, where: Lord, whomsoever, yourself, trade · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Lord, you, that), 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 | _ | 5 told | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 told | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 told | nsubj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 told | iobj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 whomsoever | case |
| 8 | whomsoever | whomsoever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 take | nsubj |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | ccomp |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 steal | cc |
| 12 | steal | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 cheat | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 cheat | aux |
| 15 | cheat | cheat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 take | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 perjure | cc |
| 17 | perjure | perjure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 cheat | conj |
| 18 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 perjure | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 trade | punct |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 trade | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 trade | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 trade | cop |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 trade | nmod:poss |
| 24 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 trade | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 trade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | Lord | Lord | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | present | you | whomsoever | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from whomsoever=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | steal in a quote | present | you not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cheat in a quote | future | you | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | perjure in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | yourself | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | future | that | your trade | your nmod:poss | 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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