Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 15

Vasilísa the Wise was left by herself, and she looked round and said: “Whoever he be who now has my shirt, let him come here: if he be an old man, he shall be as my own father; if he be a middle-aged man, he shall be as my beloved brother; if he be of my age, he shall be my lover.”

Who acts: Vasilísa, Tsarévich · What happens: leave, look round, say, be, have, let · To what, where: Vasilísa, shirt, Tsarévich, old man, aged man, lover · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vasilísa, Tsarévich), 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	Vasilísa	Vasilísa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 left	nsubj:pass
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Wise	det
3	Wise	Wise	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Vasilísa	flat
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 left	aux:pass
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 herself	case
7	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 left	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 looked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 looked	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 looked	nsubj
11	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 left	parataxis
12	round	round	ADV	_	11 looked	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 looked	conj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 Whoever	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 Whoever	punct
17	Whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 said	ccomp
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 Whoever	nsubj
19	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 he	conj
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 has	nsubj
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 has	advmod
22	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 be	ccomp
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 shirt	nmod:poss
24	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 has	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
26	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 has	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 let	obj
28	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
29	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 come	advmod
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 man	punct
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 man	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 man	nsubj
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 man	cop
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 man	det
35	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 man	amod
36	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 let	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 father	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 father	nsubj
39	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 father	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 father	cop
41	as	as	ADP	_	44 father	case
42	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 father	nmod:poss
43	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 father	amod
44	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 man	conj
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 man	punct
46	if	if	SCONJ	_	53 man	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 man	nsubj
48	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 man	cop
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 man	det
50	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 aged	amod
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 middle	punct
52	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 man	amod
53	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 man	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 brother	punct
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 brother	nsubj
56	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 brother	aux
57	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	61 brother	cop
58	as	as	ADP	_	61 brother	case
59	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 brother	nmod:poss
60	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 brother	amod
61	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 man	conj
62	;	;	PUNCT	_	74 lover	punct
63	if	if	SCONJ	_	68 age	mark
64	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 age	nsubj
65	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	68 age	cop
66	of	of	ADP	_	68 age	case
67	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	68 age	nmod:poss
68	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 lover	advcl
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 age	punct
70	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	74 lover	nsubj
71	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	74 lover	aux
72	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	74 lover	cop
73	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	74 lover	nmod:poss
74	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	parataxis
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	74 lover	punct
76	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · passive	Vasilísa	Vasilísa				tree rules
2	look round	past	Vasilísa				round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	Vasilísa not said here				Whoever Tsarévich ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	be in a quote	infinitive	Vasilísa not said here					tree rules
5	have in a quote	present		my shirt		now	who nsubj	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Patient
6	let in a quote	infinitive		Tsarévich				tree rules
7	come in a quote	infinitive	Tsarévich not said here		here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive	Tsarévich	a old man and my own father and a aged man and my beloved brother				tree rules
9	is in a quote	shall	Tsarévich				as my own father; my nmod:poss	tree rules
10	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive	Tsarévich	a aged man and my beloved brother				tree rules
11	is in a quote	shall	Tsarévich				as my beloved brother; my nmod:poss	tree rules
12	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive	Tsarévich			of my age	my nmod:poss	tree rules
13	is a in a quote	shall	Tsarévich	my lover			my 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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 15

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 15