Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 24
“If you will only not lay me low, I will show it you.”
Who acts: you, ancient witch · What happens: not lay, show · To what, where: ancient witch, hag, you
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ancient witch), 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 | _ | 13 show | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 lay | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 lay | aux |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 lay | advmod |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 lay | advmod |
| 7 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 show | advcl |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 lay | obj |
| 9 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lay | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lay | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 show | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 show | aux |
| 13 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 show | obj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 show | iobj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 show | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lay a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | ancient witch = witch | low property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Result | |||
| 2 | show in a quote | future | ancient witch = witch | hag | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient it=Topic |
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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