Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 155
So he went up and said to the elder brother, "Tell me, uncle, what shall I ask of God?
Who acts: brethren · What happens: go up, say, tell, ask · To what, where: elder brother, brethren · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brethren), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg29672:1315): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 brother | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 brother | det |
| 9 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 brother | amod |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Tell | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Tell | punct |
| 13 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 Tell | iobj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 uncle | punct |
| 16 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Tell | vocative |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ask | punct |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 ask | obj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 ask | aux |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 ask | nsubj |
| 21 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 Tell | ccomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 God | case |
| 23 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 ask | obl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | brethren | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | brethren not said here | the elder brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | brethren | uncle vocative | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask in a quote | shall | brethren | of God | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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