Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 24

You have been guilty, and you must do me this service: I have a piece of waste ground thirty versts long and broad, and there is nothing on it except ditches, ravines and sharp stones.

Who acts: You, I, nothing · What happens: be, do, have · To what, where: service, me, piece

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 (You, I, nothing), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 guilty	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 guilty	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 guilty	cop
4	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 do	cc
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 guilty	conj
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 do	iobj
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 service	det
12	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 guilty	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 piece	det
17	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 ground	case
19	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ground	compound
20	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 piece	nmod
21	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 versts	nummod
22	versts	verst	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 long	obl:unmarked
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ground	amod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 broad	cc
25	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 long	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 is	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 is	cc
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 is	expl
29	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 have	conj
30	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	29 is	nsubj
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 nothing	nmod
33	except	except	ADP	_	34 ditches	case
34	ditches	ditch	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 nothing	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 ravines	punct
36	ravines	ravine	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 ditches	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 stones	cc
38	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 stones	amod
39	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 ditches	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 guilty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	You				guilty property	tree rules
2	do	must	you	this service	me			tree rules
3	have	present	I	a piece of waste ground				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient
4	be	present	nothing on ground except ditches and ravines and sharp stones			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 24

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 24