Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 48
“No, brother, that will never do.
What happens: not do · To what, where: brother
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: 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 | _ | 4 brother | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 brother | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 brother | punct |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 do | obj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 do | advmod |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 brother | acl:relcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brother | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | future | brother | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
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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