Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 10

I could take you in my hands; if it had been Ilyá Múromets I would even have braved him.”

Who acts: I, breath · What happens: take, be, brave · To what, where: you, hands, Ilyá Múromets

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, breath), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 take	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 take	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hands	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 take	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 braved	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 braved	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 Múromets	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Múromets	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 Múromets	cop
13	Ilyá	Ilyá	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Múromets	compound
14	Múromets	Múromet	PROPN	Number=Plur	19 braved	nsubj:pass
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 braved	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 braved	aux
17	even	even	ADV	_	19 braved	advmod
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 braved	aux
19	braved	brave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 take	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 braved	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	could	I	you	my hands		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Value in hand=Location
2	is a	past · perfect	breath	Ilyá Múromets			tree rules
3	brave a condition, not said to happen	would · perfect · passive		Ilyá Múromets		I nsubj; beggar obj	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 32, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 10