Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 49

“It would evidently be out of the question in your city to come here with a young wife; if you are so greedy for a mare, you would certainly take away my wife.”

Who acts: three, you · What happens: be, come, take away · To what, where: question, wife

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 (three, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 question	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 question	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 question	aux
4	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	9 question	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 question	cop
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 question	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 question	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 question	det
9	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 city	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 city	nmod:poss
12	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 question	nmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 come	mark
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 question	acl
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 come	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 wife	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 wife	det
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 wife	amod
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 greedy	punct
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 greedy	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 greedy	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 greedy	cop
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 greedy	advmod
25	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 question	appos
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 mare	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 mare	det
28	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 greedy	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 take	punct
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 take	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 take	aux
32	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	33 take	advmod
33	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 greedy	conj
34	away	away	ADP	_	33 take	compound:prt
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 wife	nmod:poss
36	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 take	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 question	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 question	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	would	three		the question	in your city; evidently property	tree rules
2	come in a quote	to-infinitive			here	with a young wife	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	you			for a mare; greedy property	tree rules
4	take away in a quote	would	you	my wife		certainly property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme

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 8, sentence 49

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 49