Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 42
You may live on the one half and I on the other.”
Who acts: You · What happens: live · To what, where: one half
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 (You), 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 | 3 live | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 live | aux |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 half | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 half | det |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 half | nummod |
| 7 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 3 live | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 I | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 half | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 other | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 other | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 live | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | may | You | the one half I | on the other | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on half=Location |
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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