Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 72
Do not drink the glass to the bottom: if you drink it to the bottom no good will befall you; and do not boast of me: do not boast that we built a house together in a single night.”
Who acts: you, bottom, we · What happens: not drink, drink, befall, not boast, build · To what, where: glass, you, house
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 (you, bottom, 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 drink | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 drink | advmod |
| 3 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 glass | det |
| 5 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drink | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 bottom | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bottom | det |
| 8 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drink | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 drink | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 drink | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 drink | nsubj |
| 12 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 drink | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 drink | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 bottom | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bottom | det |
| 16 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 befall | nsubj |
| 17 | no | no | ADV | _ | 18 good | advmod |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bottom | amod |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 befall | aux |
| 20 | befall | befall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 drink | ccomp |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 befall | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 boast | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 boast | cc |
| 24 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 boast | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 boast | advmod |
| 26 | boast | boast | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 drink | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 me | case |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 boast | obl |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 boast | punct |
| 30 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 32 boast | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 boast | advmod |
| 32 | boast | boast | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 drink | conj |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 built | mark |
| 34 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 built | nsubj |
| 35 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 boast | advcl |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 house | det |
| 37 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 built | obj |
| 38 | together | together | ADV | _ | 35 built | advmod |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 night | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 night | det |
| 41 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 night | amod |
| 42 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 built | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drink | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 drink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not drink | imperative · do-support | you not said here | the glass | to the bottom | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Patient | |||
| 2 | drink a condition, not said to happen | present | you | glass | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | befall | future | the bottom | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not boast speech: other | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | of me | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | not boast speech: other | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | build | past | we | a house | night | together property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product |
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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