Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 14

The pope said to him: “We will first of all eat up your wafers, and we will then go on with the biscuits.”

Who acts: pope, we · What happens: say, eat up, go on · To what, where: friend, wafers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pope, we), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pope	det
2	pope	pope	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 eat	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 eat	punct
8	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 will	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 eat	aux
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 will	advmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 will	obl
13	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 eat	compound:prt
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wafers	nmod:poss
16	wafers	wafer	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 eat	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 go	cc
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 go	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 go	aux
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 go	advmod
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 eat	conj
23	on	on	ADV	_	22 go	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 biscuits	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 biscuits	det
26	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 go	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the pope		friend			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	eat up in a quote	future		your wafers				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wafer=Patient
3	go on in a quote	future	we			then	with the biscuits	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 14