Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 95

"'Go and sit under the bridge, and listen to what folks say about me--whether they bless me or revile me.'

Who acts: you, folks · What happens: go, sit, listen, say, bless, revile · To what, where: bridge, wealth · 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 (you, folks), 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	_	3 Go	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Go	punct
3	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sit	cc
5	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 Go	conj
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 bridge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bridge	det
8	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sit	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 listen	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 listen	cc
11	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 Go	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 what	case
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 listen	obl
14	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 what	acl:relcl
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 say	obl
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 bless	punct
19	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	21 bless	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bless	nsubj
21	bless	bless	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 listen	parataxis
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 bless	obj
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 revile	cc
24	revile	revile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 bless	conj
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 revile	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 Go	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	imperative	you not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		the bridge		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bridge=Location
3	listen in a quote	infinitive					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme
4	say speech: assert in a quote	present	folks			about wealth	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	bless in a quote	present	folks = folk	wealth			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
6	revile in a quote	infinitive	folks = folk not said here	wealth			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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