Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 146

But his father would not let him go, saying, "Your brothers are no more; if you likewise go away, I shall die of grief."

Who acts: father, Son, brothers, you · What happens: not let, go, say, not be, go away, die · To what, where: Son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, Son, brothers, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 let	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 let	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 let	advmod
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saying	punct
10	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 go	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 more	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 more	punct
13	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 brothers	nmod:poss
14	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 more	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 more	cop
16	no	no	ADV	_	17 more	advmod
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 saying	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 die	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 go	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 go	nsubj
21	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	22 go	advmod
22	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 die	advcl
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 go	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 die	nsubj
26	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 die	aux
27	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 grief	case
29	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 die	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not let	would	Son's father	Son		tree rules
2	go	infinitive	Son not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	gerund	Son not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not is in a quote	present	Your brothers		more property	tree rules
5	go away a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you		away, likewise property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	die in a quote	shall	Son		of grief	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of grief=Causer

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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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