Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 10
Gaze on them carefully, and select for yourself a bride, one who pleases you, and you shall marry her.”
Who acts: you · What happens: gaze, select, please, marry · To what, where: bride, you
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Gaze | gaze | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Gaze | obl |
| 4 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 1 Gaze | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 select | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 select | cc |
| 7 | select | select | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Gaze | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 yourself | case |
| 9 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 select | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bride | det |
| 11 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 select | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 bride | appos |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 pleases | nsubj |
| 15 | pleases | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 one | acl:relcl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 pleases | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 marry | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 marry | cc |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 marry | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 marry | aux |
| 21 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Gaze | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 marry | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gaze | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gaze | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | imperative | you not said here | on Korolévny; carefully property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | select | infinitive | you not said here | a bride | for yourself | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme | |||
| 3 | please | present | you | who nsubj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | marry | shall | you | bride | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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