Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 37
“But if you will give me anything, give me that sorry jade—that battered jade which carries your wood and water.”
Who acts: you, that, jade · What happens: give, batter, carry · To what, where: anything, Petrúsha, sorry jade, jade, wood
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that, jade), 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 | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 give | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 give | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 give | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | aux |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 give | advcl |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 give | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 jade | mark |
| 13 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 jade | amod |
| 14 | jade | jade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | xcomp |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 battered | punct |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 battered | nsubj |
| 17 | battered | batter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | advcl |
| 18 | jade | jade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 battered | obj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 carries | nsubj |
| 20 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 jade | acl:relcl |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wood | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carries | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 water | cc |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wood | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | anything | Petrúsha | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient anything=Theme | |||
| 2 | give in a quote | imperative | you not said here | sorry jade | Petrúsha | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 3 | batter in a quote | past | that | jade | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jade=Patient | ||||
| 4 | carry in a quote | present | jade | your wood and water | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme |
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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