Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 74
“But, if you decline my offer, I will ravage your kingdom.”
Who acts: you, King, my · What happens: decline, ravage, offer · To what, where: offer, kingdom
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 (you, King, my), 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 | _ | 12 ravage | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 ravage | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 decline | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 decline | nsubj |
| 6 | decline | decline | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ravage | advcl |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 offer | nmod:poss |
| 8 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 decline | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 decline | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 ravage | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 ravage | aux |
| 12 | ravage | ravage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 14 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ravage | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 ravage | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 ravage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decline a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | my offer | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ravage in a quote | future | the King = king | your kingdom | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient | ||||
| 3 | offer in a quote | my | nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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