Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 93
"Do bring them to life, kinsman," say their relatives. "
Who acts: you, relatives · What happens: bring, say · To what, where: lads, life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, relatives), 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 bring | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 bring | aux |
| 3 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bring | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 life | case |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bring | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 kinsman | punct |
| 8 | kinsman | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 life | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 say | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 say | punct |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 bring | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 relatives | nmod:poss |
| 13 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 say | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | lads = lad | life and kinsman | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to life=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | lads's relatives | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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