Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 44

For they would not marry separately, and what mother could they find who should boast of having forty-one daughters?

Who acts: brides, mother · What happens: not marry, find, boast, have · To what, where: one daughters

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 (brides, mother), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	5 marry	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 marry	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 marry	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 marry	advmod
5	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 find	advcl
6	separately	separately	ADV	_	5 marry	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 find	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 find	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 find	obj
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 find	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 find	aux
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 find	nsubj
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 boast	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 boast	aux
16	boast	boast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 find	conj
17	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 having	mark
18	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 boast	advcl
19	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 one	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 forty	punct
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 daughters	nummod
22	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 having	obj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not marry	would	brides = bride		separately property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	find	could	mother		what obj; brides = bride nsubj	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	boast speech: other	should			who nsubj	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	gerund		one daughters		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 44

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 44