Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 100
“IF ANY MAN CAN DRIVE AWAY THE CROW, WITH HIS WIFE AND CHILD, FROM THE ROYAL WINDOWS, THE KING WILL GRANT HIM AS A REWARD HALF OF HIS KINGDOM, AND HIS YOUNGEST DAUGHTER AS WIFE—BUT IF ANY SHALL UNDERTAKE THE WORK AND SHALL NOT FULFIL IT HE SHALL FORFEIT HIS HEAD.”
Who acts: MAN, KING, ANY · What happens: drive away, grant, undertake, not fulfil, forfeit · To what, where: CROW, ROYAL WINDOWS, man, WORK, HEAD
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MAN, KING, ANY), 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 | _ | 6 DRIVE | punct |
| 2 | IF | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 DRIVE | mark |
| 3 | ANY | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 MAN | det |
| 4 | MAN | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 DRIVE | nsubj |
| 5 | CAN | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 DRIVE | aux |
| 6 | DRIVE | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | AWAY | away | ADV | _ | 6 DRIVE | advmod |
| 8 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 CROW | det |
| 9 | CROW | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 DRIVE | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 WIFE | punct |
| 11 | WITH | with | ADP | _ | 13 WIFE | case |
| 12 | HIS | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 WIFE | nmod:poss |
| 13 | WIFE | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 DRIVE | obl |
| 14 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 CHILD | cc |
| 15 | CHILD | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 WIFE | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 WINDOWS | punct |
| 17 | FROM | from | ADP | _ | 20 WINDOWS | case |
| 18 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 WINDOWS | det |
| 19 | ROYAL | ROYAL | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 WINDOWS | compound |
| 20 | WINDOWS | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 DRIVE | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 GRANT | punct |
| 22 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 KING | det |
| 23 | KING | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 GRANT | nsubj |
| 24 | WILL | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 GRANT | aux |
| 25 | GRANT | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 DRIVE | conj |
| 26 | HIM | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 GRANT | obj |
| 27 | AS | as | ADP | _ | 30 HALF | case |
| 28 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 HALF | det |
| 29 | REWARD | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 HALF | compound |
| 30 | HALF | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 25 GRANT | obl |
| 31 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 33 KINGDOM | case |
| 32 | HIS | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 KINGDOM | nmod:poss |
| 33 | KINGDOM | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 HALF | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 DAUGHTER | punct |
| 35 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 DAUGHTER | cc |
| 36 | HIS | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 DAUGHTER | nmod:poss |
| 37 | YOUNGEST | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 38 DAUGHTER | amod |
| 38 | DAUGHTER | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 HALF | conj |
| 39 | AS | as | ADP | _ | 40 WIFE | case |
| 40 | WIFE | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 DAUGHTER | nmod |
| 41 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 56 FORFEIT | punct |
| 42 | BUT | but | CCONJ | _ | 56 FORFEIT | cc |
| 43 | IF | if | SCONJ | _ | 46 UNDERTAKE | mark |
| 44 | ANY | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 46 UNDERTAKE | nsubj |
| 45 | SHALL | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 UNDERTAKE | aux |
| 46 | UNDERTAKE | undertake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 56 FORFEIT | advcl |
| 47 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 WORK | det |
| 48 | WORK | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 UNDERTAKE | obj |
| 49 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 FULFIL | cc |
| 50 | SHALL | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 FULFIL | aux |
| 51 | NOT | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 52 FULFIL | advmod |
| 52 | FULFIL | fulfil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 UNDERTAKE | conj |
| 53 | IT | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 FULFIL | obj |
| 54 | HE | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 FORFEIT | nsubj |
| 55 | SHALL | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 56 FORFEIT | aux |
| 56 | FORFEIT | forfeit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 DRIVE | conj |
| 57 | HIS | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 58 HEAD | nmod:poss |
| 58 | HEAD | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 FORFEIT | obj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 DRIVE | punct |
| 60 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 DRIVE | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive away in a quote | can | any MAN | the CROW | the ROYAL WINDOWS | with man's WIFE and CHILD; away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from window=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | grant in a quote | future | the KING | man | as a REWARD HALF of man's KINGDOM and man's YOUNGEST DAUGHTER as WIFE | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | undertake a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | shall | ANY | the WORK | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | not fulfil in a quote | shall | ANY not said here | WORK | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | forfeit in a quote | shall | man | man's HEAD | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent head=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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