Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 12

And he wrote her this little line: “Sell,” he said, “all my possessions and come to redeem me from my misfortune.”

Who acts: King, my · What happens: write, sell, say, come, redeem, possess · To what, where: little line, Tsarítsa, possessions, King, misfortune · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 wrote	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wrote	nsubj
3	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	advcl
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wrote	iobj
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 line	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 line	amod
7	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 Sell	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 Sell	punct
10	Sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wrote	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Sell	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 wrote	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 possessions	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 possessions	punct
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 possessions	det:predet
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 possessions	nmod:poss
19	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 said	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 come	cc
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 redeem	mark
23	redeem	redeem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 come	xcomp
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 redeem	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 misfortune	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 misfortune	nmod:poss
27	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 redeem	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	write	past	King	this little line	Tsarítsa		tree rules
2	sell in a quote	infinitive	King not said here				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	King	my possessions			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	come in a quote	infinitive	King not said here				tree rules
5	redeem in a quote	to-infinitive	King not said here	King		my misfortune	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme from misfortune=Source
6	possess in a quote		my				nom possession «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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 12