Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 73
If I refuse him he will destroy all of my kingdom.”
Who acts: I, youth · What happens: refuse, destroy · To what, where: youth, all
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, youth), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 refuse | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 refuse | nsubj |
| 3 | refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 destroy | advcl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 refuse | obj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 destroy | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 destroy | aux |
| 7 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 destroy | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 kingdom | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 11 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 all | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 destroy | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 destroy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse a condition, not said to happen | present | I | youth | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | destroy | future | youth | all of my kingdom | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=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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