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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 64

Then his children, the Tsarévichi, said in a single voice: “Gracious lord, our father, Your Imperial Majesty, we will, with the greatest pleasure, try to catch the Bird of Light alive.”

Who acts: children · What happens: say, try, catch · To what, where: single voice, Bird · 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 (children), 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

advmodnmod:possnsubjpunctdetnmodpunctcasedetamodoblpunctpunctamodccomppunctnmod:possconjpunctnmod:possamodappospunctnsubjacl:relclpunctcasedetamodconjpunctparataxismarkxcompdetobjcasenmodxcomppunctpunctrootThenADVhisPRONchildrenNOUN,PUNCTtheDETTsarévichiPROPN,PUNCTsaidVERBinADPaDETsingleADJvoiceNOUN:PUNCT“PUNCTGraciousADJlordNOUN,PUNCTourPRONfatherNOUN,PUNCTYourPRONImperialADJMajestyPROPN,PUNCTwePRONwillAUX,PUNCTwithADPtheDETgreatestADJpleasureNOUN,PUNCTtryVERBtoPARTcatchVERBtheDETBirdNOUNofADPLightNOUNaliveADJ.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem8 saidadvmod
2hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 childrennmod:poss
3childrenchildNOUNNumber=Plur8 saidnsubj
4,,PUNCT_6 Tsarévichipunct
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 Tsarévichidet
6TsarévichiTsarévichiPROPNNumber=Sing3 childrennmod
7,,PUNCT_3 childrenpunct
8saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9ininADP_12 voicecase
10aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art12 voicedet
11singlesingleADJDegree=Pos12 voiceamod
12voicevoiceNOUNNumber=Sing8 saidobl
13::PUNCT_16 lordpunct
14“"PUNCT_16 lordpunct
15GraciousgraciousADJDegree=Pos16 lordamod
16lordlordNOUNNumber=Sing8 saidccomp
17,,PUNCT_19 fatherpunct
18ourourPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 fathernmod:poss
19fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing16 lordconj
20,,PUNCT_23 Majestypunct
21YouryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 Majestynmod:poss
22ImperialimperialADJDegree=Pos23 Majestyamod
23MajestyMajestyPROPNNumber=Sing19 fatherappos
24,,PUNCT_26 willpunct
25wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs26 willnsubj
26willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin16 lordacl:relcl
27,,PUNCT_31 pleasurepunct
28withwithADP_31 pleasurecase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 pleasuredet
30greatestgreatADJDegree=Sup31 pleasureamod
31pleasurepleasureNOUNNumber=Sing16 lordconj
32,,PUNCT_33 trypunct
33trytryVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin16 lordparataxis
34totoPART_35 catchmark
35catchcatchVERBVerbForm=Inf33 tryxcomp
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 Birddet
37BirdbirdNOUNNumber=Sing35 catchobj
38ofofADP_39 Lightcase
39LightlightNOUNNumber=Sing37 Birdnmod
40alivealiveADJDegree=Pos35 catchxcomp
41..PUNCT_16 lordpunct
42”"PUNCT_16 lordpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastreward's children the Tsarévichia single voicethenGracious lord and our father and the greatest pleasure ccompvn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner
2try in a quoteinfinitivevn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3catch not said to happen, in a quoteto-infinitivethe Bird of Lightalive propertyvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme

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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