Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 161

Before taking the sacrament at Easter, the servants in a Russian household ask their employers to forgive them for any faults of which they may have been guilty. "

Who acts: servants, employers · What happens: take, ask, forgive, be · To what, where: sacrament, Easter, employers

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, employers), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	2 taking	mark
2	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 ask	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sacrament	det
4	sacrament	sacrament	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 taking	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 Easter	case
6	Easter	Easter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 taking	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 taking	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 servants	det
9	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ask	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 household	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 household	det
12	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 household	amod
13	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 servants	nmod
14	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 employers	nmod:poss
16	employers	employer	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ask	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 forgive	mark
18	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ask	xcomp
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 forgive	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 faults	case
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 faults	det
22	faults	fault	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 forgive	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 guilty	obl
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 guilty	nsubj
26	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 guilty	aux
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 guilty	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 guilty	cop
29	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 faults	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 ask	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	gerund	the servants in a Russian household not said here	the sacrament	Easter		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent sacrament=Theme at easter=Asset
2	ask speech: ask	present	the servants in a Russian household	servants's employers			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent employer=Recipient clause=Topic
3	forgive not said to happen	to-infinitive	servants's employers not said here	employers = employer		for any faults	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme for fault=Attribute
4	is	may · perfect	servants = servant			of any faults; guilty property	tree rules

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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