Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 75
“What will you?—you had better measure your strength with him: to whichever of you conquers I will give my daughter.”
Who acts: you, King · What happens: have, measure, conquer, give · To what, where: strength, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 had | advcl |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 you | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 had | xcomp |
| 10 | measure | measure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 had | xcomp |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 strength | nmod:poss |
| 12 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 measure | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 measure | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 conquers | punct |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 whichever | case |
| 17 | whichever | whichever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 conquers | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 whichever | nmod |
| 20 | conquers | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | parataxis |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 give | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 give | aux |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 conquers | ccomp |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 25 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 give | iobj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 conquers | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 conquers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | you | What you advcl; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | measure in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | your strength | with youth | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme strength=Value | |||
| 3 | conquer in a quote | present | to whichever of you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | give in a quote | future | the King = king | my daughter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme |
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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