Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 5

“Oh, the work is easy enough: for fifteen years you must not shave, you must not have your hair cut, you must not blow your nose, and you must not change your garb.

Who acts: work, you, hair · What happens: be, not shave, not have, cut, not blow, not change · To what, where: hair, nose, garb

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 (work, you, hair), 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	_	7 easy	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 easy	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 work	det
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 easy	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 easy	cop
7	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 blow	advcl
8	enough	enough	ADV	_	7 easy	advmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 shave	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 years	case
11	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 shave	obl
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 shave	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 shave	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 shave	advmod
16	shave	shave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 easy	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 have	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 have	advmod
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 easy	conj
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hair	nmod:poss
23	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obj
24	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 have	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 easy	punct
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 blow	nsubj
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 blow	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 blow	advmod
29	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 nose	nmod:poss
31	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 blow	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 change	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 change	cc
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 change	nsubj
35	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 change	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 change	advmod
37	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 blow	conj
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 garb	nmod:poss
39	garb	garb	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 change	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 blow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the work			easy, enough property	tree rules
2	not shave in a quote	must	you		year		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not have in a quote	must	you	your hair			tree rules
4	cut in a quote	participle	your hair not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	not blow in a quote	must	you	your nose			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent nose=Patient
6	not change in a quote	must	you	your garb			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garb=Patient

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 37, sentence 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 5