Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 28
If she deceives us this time we may not be able to repair it all our life long.”
Who acts: Bába, we · What happens: deceive, not be, repair · To what, where: us, mistake
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 (Bába, we), 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 | _ | 3 deceives | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 deceives | nsubj |
| 3 | deceives | deceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 deceives | obj |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 able | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 able | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 able | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 able | advmod |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 able | cop |
| 11 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 deceives | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 repair | mark |
| 13 | repair | repair | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 able | xcomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 repair | obj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 life | det:predet |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 life | nmod:poss |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 repair | obj |
| 18 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 repair | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 able | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 deceives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deceive | present | Bába | us | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not is | may | we | time | able property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | repair | to-infinitive | we not said here | mistake | our life obj; long property | 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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