Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 144
So, listen to me; if you ever wish to return to the light of day, you must do as I say.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: listen, wish, return, do, say, light · To what, where: me, day · 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 (you, I), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 listen | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 listen | punct |
| 3 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 listen | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 wish | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 wish | nsubj |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 wish | advmod |
| 10 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 return | mark |
| 12 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wish | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 light | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 light | det |
| 15 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 return | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 light | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wish | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 do | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 listen | conj |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 say | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 say | nsubj |
| 24 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | imperative | you not said here | me | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | ever | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | to the light of day result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to light=Result | ||||
| 4 | do | must | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | light | day | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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