Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 28
“Very well, then: if the chain hold, I will give you one hundred roubles; if it break, your labour’s lost.”
Who acts: smith, hold · What happens: give, break, lose · To what, where: hundred roubles, you, labour
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 (smith, hold), 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 | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 then | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 give | advmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 hold | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hold | det |
| 9 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hold | compound |
| 10 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hold | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 give | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | aux |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 hundred | compound |
| 17 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 roubles | nummod |
| 18 | roubles | rouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 give | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 lost | punct |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 break | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 break | nsubj |
| 22 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 lost | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 break | punct |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 labour | nmod:poss |
| 25 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 lost | aux:pass |
| 27 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 give | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | future | the smith = smith | hundred roubles | you | then | the chain hold advcl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient rouble=Theme | |
| 2 | break a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | hold | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | lose in a quote | present · passive | your labour | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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