Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 41
If we now forgive her, we shall get no good thereby, for she will strive ever against us all her life.”
Who acts: we, Bába · What happens: forgive, get, strive · To what, where: Bába, life
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 (we, Bába), 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 | _ | 4 forgive | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 forgive | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 forgive | advmod |
| 4 | forgive | forgive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 get | advcl |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 forgive | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 forgive | punct |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 get | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 get | aux |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 good | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 get | xcomp |
| 12 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 11 good | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 strive | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 strive | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 strive | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 strive | aux |
| 17 | strive | strive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 get | conj |
| 18 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 strive | advmod |
| 19 | against | against | ADP | _ | 20 us | case |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 strive | obl |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 life | det:predet |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 life | nmod:poss |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 strive | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forgive a condition, not said to happen | present | we | Bába | now | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | get | shall | we | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | strive | future | Bába | Bába's life | ever | against us | 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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