Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 37
You might go round the entire earth and never see any horses as good.
Who acts: You · What happens: go, not see · To what, where: entire earth, horses
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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | round | round | ADP | _ | 7 earth | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 earth | det |
| 6 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 earth | amod |
| 7 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 see | cc |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 see | advmod |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 horses | det |
| 12 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 see | obj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 good | case |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 see | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | might | You | the entire earth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round earth=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | not see | infinitive | You not said here | any horses | as good | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus as good=Attribute |
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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