Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 50

[457] Then the Evil One afflicted the envious Pope, suggesting to him "Why shouldn't he go and perform the cure by himself, without saying a word to the old man, and so lay hold of all the gold and silver for himself?"

Who acts: Evil One, Pope · What happens: afflict, suggest, not go, perform, say, hold · To what, where: 457, Pope, cure, word, old man, gold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Evil One, Pope), 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	_	2 457	punct
2	457	457	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 afflicted	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 457	punct
4	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 afflicted	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 One	det
6	Evil	Evil	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 One	compound
7	One	One	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 afflicted	nsubj
8	afflicted	afflict	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Pope	det
10	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Pope	amod
11	Pope	Pope	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 afflicted	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 suggesting	punct
13	suggesting	suggest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 afflicted	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 suggesting	obl
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
17	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	21 go	advmod
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 go	aux
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 go	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 go	nsubj
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 suggesting	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 perform	cc
23	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cure	det
25	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 perform	obj
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 himself	case
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 perform	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 saying	punct
29	without	without	SCONJ	_	30 saying	mark
30	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 perform	advcl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 word	det
32	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 saying	obj
33	to	to	ADP	_	36 man	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 man	det
35	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 man	amod
36	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 saying	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 hold	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 hold	cc
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 lay	advmod
40	lay	lay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 hold	amod
41	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 afflicted	parataxis
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 gold	case
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 gold	det:predet
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 gold	det
45	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 hold	nmod
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 silver	cc
47	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 gold	conj
48	for	for	ADP	_	49 himself	case
49	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	41 hold	nmod
50	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 afflicted	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 afflicted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	afflict	past	the Evil One	457		then		tree rules
2	suggest speech: suggest	gerund	the Evil One not said here		Pope			vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not go in a quote	should	Pope					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	perform in a quote	infinitive	Pope not said here	the cure			by Pope	vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cure=Theme
5	say speech: assert in a quote	gerund	Pope not said here	a word	the old man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to man=Recipient
6	hold in a quote			all gold and silver			for Pope	nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient for=obl

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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