Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 46

“Yes, we have divided the earth, but not the sea; we must also divide the sea, otherwise you would say I was taking your share of the water.”

Who acts: we, you, I, your · What happens: divide, say, take, share · To what, where: earth, sea, share, water · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (we, you, I, your), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 divided	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 divided	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 divided	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 divided	aux
6	divided	divide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 earth	det
8	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 divided	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sea	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 sea	cc
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 sea	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 earth	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 divide	punct
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 divide	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 divide	aux
17	also	also	ADV	_	18 divide	advmod
18	divide	divide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 divided	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sea	det
20	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 divide	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 say	punct
22	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	25 say	advmod
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 say	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 say	aux
25	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 divide	conj
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 taking	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 taking	aux
28	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 say	ccomp
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 share	nmod:poss
30	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 taking	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 water	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 water	det
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 share	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 divided	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 divided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	divide in a quote	present · perfect	we	the earth but the sea		vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Theme
2	divide in a quote	must	we	the sea		vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Theme
3	say speech: assert in a quote	would	you		otherwise property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take in a quote	past · progressive	I	your share of the water		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Theme
5	share in a quote		your	the water		nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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 46

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 46