Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 70

If for half a day I might be God, then let me be Peter all the rest of my days!”

Who acts: I, God, rest · What happens: be, let · To what, where: God, rest, me, Peter

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 (I, God, rest), 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	_	9 God	mark
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 day	case
3	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	5 day	det:predet
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 God	obl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 God	nsubj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 God	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 God	cop
9	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 let	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 God	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 let	advmod
12	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 let	obj
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 Peter	cop
15	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 let	xcomp
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 rest	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rest	det
18	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 let	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 days	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 days	nmod:poss
21	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 rest	nmod
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	might	I	God		day	tree rules
2	let	infinitive	God	all rest of my days	me	then	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient rest=Theme
3	is a	infinitive	all rest of my days not said here	Peter			tree rules

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 70

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 70