Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 88

He begged his children not to send him there, and wept before them. "

Who acts: man · What happens: beg, not send, weep · To what, where: children, man

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 children	nmod:poss
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 begged	obj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 send	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 send	mark
7	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 begged	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 send	obj
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 send	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wept	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wept	cc
12	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 begged	conj
13	before	before	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wept	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 wept	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	man		man's children			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not send not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here	man		there		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	weep	past	man not said here				before sons = son	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: 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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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