Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 91

So he and his wife "began to pray to God, entreating him to give them a child--for solace in their youth, for support in their old age, for soul-remembrance[396] after death.

Who acts: God · What happens: begin, pray, entreat, give · To what, where: God, child, children

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 (God), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 began	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 began	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wife	cc
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wife	nmod:poss
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 he	conj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 wife	punct
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 pray	mark
9	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 God	case
11	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 pray	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 entreating	punct
13	entreating	entreat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 began	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 entreating	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 give	mark
16	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 entreating	xcomp
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 give	iobj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 child	det
19	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 give	obj
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 solace	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 solace	case
22	solace	solace	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 give	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 youth	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 youth	nmod:poss
25	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 solace	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 support	punct
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 support	case
28	support	support	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 give	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 age	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 age	nmod:poss
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 age	amod
32	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 support	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 remembrance	punct
34	for	for	ADP	_	37 remembrance	case
35	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 remembrance	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 soul	punct
37	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 began	obl
38	[	[	PUNCT	_	39 396	punct
39	396	396	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	37 remembrance	appos
40	]	]	PUNCT	_	39 396	punct
41	after	after	ADP	_	42 death	case
42	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 began	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin in a quote	past	God			after death	for soul remembrance	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	pray in a quote	to-infinitive	God not said here		God			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	entreat in a quote	gerund	God not said here	God				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	give in a quote	to-infinitive	God not said here	a child	children = child		for solace in children's youth	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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