Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 128
Put it on your son’s hand, and he will then be rich and generous: only he must marry the maiden whom this ring fits.”
Who acts: you, son, ring · What happens: put, be, marry, fit · To what, where: ring, hand, maiden
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, son, ring), 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 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 son | case |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rich | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rich | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 rich | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 rich | aux |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 rich | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 rich | cop |
| 14 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Put | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 generous | cc |
| 16 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rich | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 marry | punct |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 marry | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 marry | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 marry | aux |
| 21 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Put | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 maiden | det |
| 23 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 marry | obj |
| 24 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 fits | obj |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 ring | det |
| 26 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fits | nsubj |
| 27 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | ring | your son's hand | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on hand=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | future | son | then | rich property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | son not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | marry | must | son | the maiden | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Patient | ||||
| 5 | fit | present | this ring | whom obj | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=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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