Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 27
“No, your Majesty, I do not wish to be a general; but if you will do me a favour, give me one of your daughters as my wife, and you shall have as much money as you wish for the Treasury.”
Who acts: fool, you · What happens: not wish, be, do, give, have, wish · To what, where: favour, fool, one, much money
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fool, you), 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 | _ | 10 wish | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 wish | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Majesty | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 No | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wish | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 wish | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 wish | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 wish | advmod |
| 10 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 general | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 general | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 general | det |
| 14 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wish | xcomp |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 give | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 give | cc |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 give | advcl |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 do | iobj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 favour | det |
| 23 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 25 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wish | conj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 give | iobj |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 give | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 daughters | case |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 30 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 one | nmod |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 wife | case |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 wife | nmod:poss |
| 33 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 give | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 have | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 have | cc |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 have | nsubj |
| 37 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 have | aux |
| 38 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wish | conj |
| 39 | as | as | ADV | _ | 40 much | advmod |
| 40 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 money | amod |
| 41 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 have | obj |
| 42 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 wish | mark |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 wish | nsubj |
| 44 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 have | advcl |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 Treasury | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Treasury | det |
| 47 | Treasury | Treasury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 wish | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 wish | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wish in a quote | present · do-support | what fool = fool | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | what fool = fool not said here | general property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | a favour | what fool = fool | tree rules | |||
| 4 | give in a quote | infinitive | what fool = fool not said here | one of your daughters | what fool = fool | as my wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient one=Theme | ||
| 5 | have in a quote | shall | you | much money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | ||||
| 6 | wish in a quote | present | you | for the Treasury | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for treasury=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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