Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 137
"My born father and my born mother! give me your blessing.
Who acts: born father, your · What happens: bear, give, bless · To what, where: blessing, old man
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (born father, your), 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 | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 father | amod |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 mother | cc |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 mother | amod |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 father | conj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 father | punct |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 13 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear in a quote | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | bear in a quote | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | give in a quote | infinitive | My born father and my born mother | your blessing | the old man = man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient blessing=Theme | |||
| 4 | bless in a quote | your | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=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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