Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 4

"Suppose we sing a song, too," he says to his wife.

Who acts: we, man · What happens: suppose, sing, say · To what, where: song, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:2723): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Suppose	punct
2	Suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 says	ccomp
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sing	nsubj
4	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Suppose	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 song	det
6	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 too	punct
8	too	too	ADV	_	4 sing	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Suppose	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Suppose	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 says	nsubj
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 wife	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wife	nmod:poss
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	suppose in a quote	infinitive				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	sing speech: express in a quote	present	we	a song		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	man		man's wife	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient clause=Topic

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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