Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 171
It is perfectly true, and the gipsy spoke the truth: “If I had not given him the stirrup!—if I had not only known him!
Who acts: stirrup, gipsy · What happens: be, speak, not give, not know · To what, where: truth, stirrup, GIPSY · 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 (stirrup, gipsy), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 3 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 4 true | advmod |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 spoke | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 spoke | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gipsy | det |
| 8 | gipsy | gipsy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spoke | nsubj |
| 9 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 truth | det |
| 11 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spoke | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 given | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 given | punct |
| 14 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 given | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 given | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 given | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 given | advmod |
| 18 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 spoke | parataxis |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 given | iobj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stirrup | det |
| 21 | stirrup | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 given | obj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 given | punct |
| 23 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 known | punct |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 known | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 known | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 known | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 known | advmod |
| 28 | only | only | ADV | _ | 29 known | advmod |
| 29 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 true | parataxis |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 known | obj |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | stirrup | perfectly, true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | the gipsy | the truth | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · perfect | the gipsy = gipsy | the stirrup | GIPSY | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient stirrup=Theme | |||
| 4 | not know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · perfect | the gipsy = gipsy | GIPSY | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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