Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 36

"Brothers!" said Vanyusha,[333] "our father is dead; which of us is to read prayers over his grave?"

Who acts: Brothers, Vanyusha · What happens: say, be · To what, where: grave · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brothers, Vanyusha), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Brothers	punct
2	Brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Brothers	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Brothers	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Vanyusha	Vanyusha	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 dead	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 333	punct
8	[	[	PUNCT	_	9 333	punct
9	333	333	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 Vanyusha	appos
10	]	]	PUNCT	_	9 333	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 dead	punct
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dead	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 dead	cop
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 read	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 read	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 us	case
19	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 which	obl
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 read	cop
21	to	to	PART	_	22 read	mark
22	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 dead	parataxis
23	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 read	obj
24	over	over	ADP	_	26 grave	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 grave	nmod:poss
26	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 read	obl
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 dead	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	Brothers			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	Vanyusha		dead property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present		father's grave	read 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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