Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 42
As long as you have any strength, they feed you and give you drink; but when your strength dies away and you become old they drive you from the courtyard.”
Who acts: you, people, strength · What happens: have, feed, give, drink, die away, become · To what, where: strength, you, courtyard
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, people, strength), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 feed | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 have | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 feed | advcl |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 strength | det |
| 7 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 feed | nsubj |
| 10 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 feed | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 give | cc |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 feed | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 drink | nsubj |
| 15 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 give | ccomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 become | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 become | cc |
| 18 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 dies | mark |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 strength | nmod:poss |
| 20 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dies | nsubj |
| 21 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 become | advcl |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 dies | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dies | cc |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 become | nsubj |
| 25 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 feed | conj |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 become | xcomp |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 drive | nsubj |
| 28 | drive | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 become | xcomp |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 drive | obj |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 courtyard | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 courtyard | det |
| 32 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 drive | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 feed | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 feed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | you | any strength | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient | ||||
| 2 | feed | present | people | you | long property | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 3 | give | infinitive | people not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | drink | present | you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | die away | present | your strength | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | become | present | you | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | drive | present | people | you | the courtyard | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme from courtyard=Trajectory |
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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