Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 50

But pray to God for poor me, for now I must be and remain a serpent for ever."

Who acts: you, I · What happens: pray, be, remain · To what, where: God, serpent

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Serpent-wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 pray	cc
2	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 God	case
4	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 pray	obl
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 poor	case
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pray	ccomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 poor	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 be	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 be	mark
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 be	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 be	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 be	aux
13	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pray	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 remain	cc
15	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 pray	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 serpent	det
17	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 remain	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 ever	case
19	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 remain	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pray	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 pray	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	pray	imperative	you not said here		God		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	be	must	I			now	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	remain	infinitive	you not said here	a serpent			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme serpent=Attribute

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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