Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 90

I'll offer thee a taper, and I'll never let friend or foe dishonor thee, Mother!"

Who acts: I · What happens: offer, not let · To what, where: thee, friend

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 offer	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 offer	aux
3	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 offer	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 taper	det
6	taper	taper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 offer	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 let	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 let	nsubj
10	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 let	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 let	advmod
12	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 offer	conj
13	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 let	obj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 dishonor	cc
15	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dishonor	compound
16	dishonor	dishonor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 friend	conj
17	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 let	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Mother	punct
19	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 let	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 offer	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 offer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	future	I	thee					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent thou=Goal taper=Theme
2	not let	future	I	thee	friend or foe dishonor			Mother obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient thou=Theme

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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