Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 127
“WHO GOES TO THE RIGHT SHALL RECEIVE A KINGDOM, WHO GOES TO THE LEFT SHALL RECEIVE MUCH OF EVIL AND OF GRIEF, BUT HE SHALL MARRY A FAIR PRINCESS.”
Who acts: KINGDOM, youngest · What happens: go, receive, marry · To what, where: KINGDOM, MUCH, FAIR PRINCESS · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (KINGDOM, youngest), 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 | _ | 3 GOES | punct |
| 2 | WHO | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 GOES | nsubj |
| 3 | GOES | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | TO | to | ADP | _ | 6 RIGHT | case |
| 5 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 RIGHT | det |
| 6 | RIGHT | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 RECEIVE | obl |
| 7 | SHALL | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 RECEIVE | aux |
| 8 | RECEIVE | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 GOES | ccomp |
| 9 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 KINGDOM | det |
| 10 | KINGDOM | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 RECEIVE | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 GOES | punct |
| 12 | WHO | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 GOES | nsubj |
| 13 | GOES | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 KINGDOM | acl:relcl |
| 14 | TO | to | ADP | _ | 16 LEFT | case |
| 15 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 LEFT | det |
| 16 | LEFT | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 RECEIVE | obl |
| 17 | SHALL | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 RECEIVE | aux |
| 18 | RECEIVE | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 GOES | ccomp |
| 19 | MUCH | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 RECEIVE | obj |
| 20 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 21 EVIL | case |
| 21 | EVIL | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 MUCH | nmod |
| 22 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 GRIEF | cc |
| 23 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 24 GRIEF | case |
| 24 | GRIEF | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 MUCH | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 MARRY | punct |
| 26 | BUT | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 MARRY | cc |
| 27 | HE | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 MARRY | nsubj |
| 28 | SHALL | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 MARRY | aux |
| 29 | MARRY | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 GOES | conj |
| 30 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 PRINCESS | det |
| 31 | FAIR | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 PRINCESS | amod |
| 32 | PRINCESS | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 MARRY | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 GOES | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 GOES | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present | WHO nsubj | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | receive in a quote | shall | a KINGDOM | to the RIGHT | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present | a KINGDOM | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | receive in a quote | shall | a KINGDOM not said here | MUCH of EVIL and GRIEF | to the LEFT | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | |||
| 5 | marry in a quote | shall | youngest = young | a FAIR PRINCESS | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient |
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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