Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 75
Tsar Výslav once again called his children unto him and said, “My beloved sons, do ye journey forth: I will give you my blessing.
Who acts: beloved sons, I, my · What happens: call, say, journey, give, bless · To what, where: Tsar, blessing, you · 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 (beloved sons, I, 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 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | Výslav | Výslav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tsar | flat |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 called | advmod |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 called | advmod |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 children | nmod:poss |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 called | xcomp |
| 8 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 children | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 journey | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 journey | punct |
| 14 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sons | nmod:poss |
| 15 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sons | amod |
| 16 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 journey | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sons | punct |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 journey | aux |
| 19 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 journey | compound |
| 20 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 21 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 20 journey | advmod |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 give | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 give | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 give | aux |
| 25 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 called | conj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 give | iobj |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 28 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 give | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | participle · passive | Tsar | again | IVÁN's children unto IVÁN xcomp; once property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | journey in a quote | present · do-support | My beloved sons | forth property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | future | I | my blessing | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient blessing=Theme | |||
| 5 | bless in a quote | my | nom blessing «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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