Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 8

In the story of "Christ's Brother"[436] a young man--whose father, on his deathbed, had charged him not to forget the poor--goes to church on Easter Day, having provided himself with red eggs to give to the beggars with whom he should exchange the Pascal greeting.

Who acts: young man, Brother · What happens: charge, not forget, go, provide, give, exchange · To what, where: Brother, story, poor, church, beggars, Pascal greeting

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (young man, Brother), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 story	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 story	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 charged	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 Brother	case
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Brother	punct
6	Christ	Christ	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Brother	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Christ	case
8	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 story	nmod
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Brother	punct
10	[	[	PUNCT	_	11 436	punct
11	436	436	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 Brother	appos
12	]	]	PUNCT	_	11 436	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 charged	nsubj
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 father	punct
17	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 man	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 deathbed	punct
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 deathbed	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 deathbed	nmod:poss
22	deathbed	deathbed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 man	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 man	punct
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 charged	aux
25	charged	charge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 provided	csubj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 charged	iobj
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 forget	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 forget	mark
29	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 charged	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 poor	det
31	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 forget	obj
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 goes	punct
33	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 charged	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 church	case
35	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 goes	obl
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 Day	case
37	Easter	Easter	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Day	compound
38	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 church	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 having	punct
40	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 provided	aux
41	provided	provide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
42	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	41 provided	obj
43	with	with	ADP	_	45 eggs	case
44	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 eggs	amod
45	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 provided	obl
46	to	to	PART	_	47 give	mark
47	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 provided	advcl
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 beggars	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 beggars	det
50	beggars	beggar	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 give	obl
51	with	with	ADP	_	52 whom	case
52	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 exchange	obl
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 exchange	nsubj
54	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 exchange	aux
55	exchange	exchange	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 beggars	acl:relcl
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 greeting	det
57	Pascal	Pascal	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 greeting	compound
58	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 exchange	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 provided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	charge	past · perfect	a young man and a young man and a young man's father and Brother's deathbed's father and Brother's deathbed		Brother	the story of Christ's Brother		tree rules
2	not forget	to-infinitive	a young man and a young man and a young man's father and Brother's deathbed's father and Brother's deathbed not said here	the poor				tree rules
3	go	present	a young man and a young man and a young man's father and Brother's deathbed's father and Brother's deathbed not said here			church on Easter Day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location
4	provide	gerund · perfect		Brother			with red eggs	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient with egg=Theme
5	give	to-infinitive			the beggars			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to beggar=Recipient
6	exchange	should	Brother	the Pascal greeting			with the beggars	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme with whom=Co-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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