Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 93
If you find the duck on any one of us do with him what you will; if you do not, let your own head pay for it.”
Who acts: you, duck, your · What happens: find, do, not do, let, pay · To what, where: own head pay · 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, duck, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 find | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 find | nsubj |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 let | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 duck | det |
| 5 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | nsubj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 one | det |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 duck | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 us | case |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 one | nmod |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | ccomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 do | obl |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 do | obj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 will | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 let | punct |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 let | advcl |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 do | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 23 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 pay | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 pay | amod |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pay | compound |
| 27 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 let | obj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 pay | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 let | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | present | the duck on any one of us | with Korolévichi; what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not do a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | let | imperative | you not said here | your own head pay | for pay | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent pay=Theme for it=Asset | |||
| 5 | pay | your | for pay | nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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