Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 2

“Very well,” said the snake, “I will forgive you, but on condition that whoever meets you first, when you reach home, you must give me for all eternity; and, if you deceive me, do not forget, nobody can ever hide himself from me: I shall find you wherever you are.”

Who acts: snake, condition, you, nobody · What happens: say, forgive, meet, reach, give, deceive · To what, where: you, snake, condition · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snake, condition, you, nobody), 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 said	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 well	advmod
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 said	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 snake	det
8	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 forgive	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 forgive	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 forgive	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 forgive	aux
13	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 forgive	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 give	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 give	cc
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 condition	case
18	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 give	obl
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 meets	nsubj
20	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 meets	nsubj
21	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 condition	acl:relcl
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 meets	obj
23	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 meets	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 reach	punct
25	when	when	SCONJ	_	27 reach	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 reach	nsubj
27	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 condition	acl:relcl
28	home	home	ADV	_	27 reach	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 condition	punct
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 give	nsubj
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 give	aux
32	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 give	iobj
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 eternity	case
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 eternity	det
36	eternity	eternity	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 give	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 forget	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 forget	cc
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 and	punct
40	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 deceive	mark
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 deceive	nsubj
42	deceive	deceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 forget	advcl
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 deceive	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 deceive	punct
45	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	47 forget	aux
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 forget	advmod
47	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 hide	punct
49	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	52 hide	nsubj
50	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 hide	aux
51	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	52 hide	advmod
52	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 forget	advcl
53	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	52 hide	obj
54	from	from	ADP	_	55 me	case
55	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 hide	obl
56	:	:	PUNCT	_	59 find	punct
57	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 find	nsubj
58	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 find	aux
59	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
60	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	59 find	obj
61	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	63 are	advmod
62	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	63 are	nsubj
63	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 find	ccomp
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
65	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the snake					well property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	forgive in a quote	future	the snake = snake	you					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	meet in a quote	present	condition	you				whoever nsubj; first property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent
4	reach in a quote	present	you					home property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	give in a quote	must	you		the snake = snake	condition	for all eternity		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Theme for eternity=Asset
6	deceive a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	the snake = snake					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
7	not forget in a quote	infinitive · do-support	the snake not said here						tree rules
8	hide in a quote	can	nobody	snake			ever	from the snake = snake	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent himself=Patient from i=Beneficiary
9	find in a quote	shall	the snake = snake	you					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Attribute clause=Theme
10	does in a quote	present	you					wherever property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 2

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 2