Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 163
"Now, comrade dear, quaff a third cup!" said the dead man, "and then go, in God's name, and celebrate thy marriage!"
Who acts: comrade, God, thy · What happens: say, go, celebrate, name, marry · To what, where: dead man, name, marriage · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., 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 (comrade, God, thy), 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 | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 comrade | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 quaff | punct |
| 7 | quaff | quaff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comrade | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cup | det |
| 9 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 cup | amod |
| 10 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comrade | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 comrade | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 comrade | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 go | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 go | advmod |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 name | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 name | case |
| 24 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 name | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 God | case |
| 26 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 go | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 celebrate | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 celebrate | cc |
| 29 | celebrate | celebrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 go | conj |
| 30 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 31 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 celebrate | obj |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | comrade a third cup and quaff | the dead man | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | comrade a third cup and quaff not said here | God's name | then | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in name=Location | |||
| 3 | celebrate in a quote | infinitive | comrade a third cup and quaff not said here | thy marriage | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marriage=Theme | ||||
| 4 | name in a quote | God | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | marry in a quote | thy | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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