Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 127
That is making me angry; and I said in my indignation that if the Devil himself came and gave me a girl, I would make her my bride.”
Who acts: That, I, Devil · What happens: make, say, come, give · To what, where: me, indignation, girl, bride · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (That, I, Devil), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 making | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 making | aux |
| 3 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 making | obj |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 making | xcomp |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 making | parataxis |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 indignation | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 indignation | nmod:poss |
| 12 | indignation | indignation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Devil | det |
| 16 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 Devil | nmod |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gave | cc |
| 20 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 came | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 gave | iobj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 girl | det |
| 23 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 make | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 make | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 make | aux |
| 27 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 came | conj |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 make | obj |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 bride | nmod:poss |
| 30 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 make | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 making | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · progressive | That | me | angry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | I | my indignation | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in indignation=Manner | ||||
| 3 | come a condition, not said to happen | past | the Devil Devil | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | give | past | the Devil Devil not said here | a girl | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient girl=Theme | |||
| 5 | make | would | I | my bride | girl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary bride=Product |
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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