Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 129
Alyósha Popóvich, the Mocker of Women, then said, “If this had been my wife I should have taught her to obey!”
Who acts: Alyósha · What happens: say, teach, obey · To what, where: Alyósha, wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alyósha), 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 | Alyósha | Alyósha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 2 | Popóvich | Popóvich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Alyósha | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mocker | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Mocker | det |
| 5 | Mocker | Mocker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Alyósha | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Women | case |
| 7 | Women | Women | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mocker | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alyósha | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 said | advmod |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 taught | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 taught | punct |
| 13 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 been | mark |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 been | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 been | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 taught | aux:pass |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 been | nsubj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 taught | aux |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 taught | aux |
| 22 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 taught | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 obey | mark |
| 25 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 taught | xcomp |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 obey | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 obey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | Alyósha and the Mocker of Women | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | teach speech: other in a quote | should · participle · perfect · passive | Alyósha and the Mocker of Women = alyósha | wife | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | obey in a quote | to-infinitive | Alyósha and the Mocker of Women = alyósha not said here | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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