Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 123
I will do you no harm, and perhaps I can help you in your need.
Who acts: I, your · What happens: do, help, need · To what, where: you, need
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, your), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | aux |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 do | obj |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 harm | det |
| 6 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 do | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 help | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 help | cc |
| 9 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 12 help | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 help | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 help | aux |
| 12 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 do | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 help | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 need | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 need | nmod:poss |
| 16 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 help | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | I | you | no harm obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | help | can | I | you | your need | perhaps property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | ||
| 3 | need | your | nom need «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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