Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 4

Say to him, 'Uncle Ilmen! the Chorny has sent thee a petition, and has told me to say that a mill has been set in his way.

Who acts: you, Chorny · What happens: say, send, tell, set · To what, where: Uncle Ilmen, Novgorod, thee, me, mill, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. 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 (you, Chorny), 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	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Say	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 '	punct
5	'	's	PART	_	7 Ilmen	punct
6	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Ilmen	compound
7	Ilmen	Ilmen	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Say	obj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 Ilmen	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Chorny	det
10	Chorny	Chorny	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sent	nsubj
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sent	aux
12	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 Ilmen	acl:relcl
13	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 sent	obj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 petition	det
15	petition	petition	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sent	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 told	cc
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 told	aux
19	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Say	parataxis
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 told	iobj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 say	mark
22	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 told	xcomp
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 set	mark
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 mill	det
25	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 set	nsubj:pass
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 set	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 set	aux:pass
28	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 say	ccomp
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 way	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 way	nmod:poss
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 set	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	Uncle Ilmen	Novgorod		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ilmen=Topic to he=Recipient
2	send	present · perfect	the Chorny	thee			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Destination petition=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	present · perfect			me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	set	present · perfect · passive		a mill		Novgorod's way	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in way=Destination

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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