Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 152

I served God and the Great Sovereign five-and-twenty years, and never died of it; and, for one night’s service for you, I am to die!

Who acts: I, one night · What happens: serve, not die, die, service · To what, where: God

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 (I, one night), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 served	nsubj
2	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 served	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Sovereign	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sovereign	det
6	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Sovereign	amod
7	Sovereign	Sovereign	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 God	conj
8	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 God	nmod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 five	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 years	cc
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 and	punct
12	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 -	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 died	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 died	cc
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 died	advmod
17	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 served	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 died	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 service	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 service	cc
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 and	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	27 service	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 night	nummod
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 service	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 night	case
27	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 served	parataxis
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 you	case
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 service	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 am	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 am	nsubj
32	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 served	parataxis
33	to	to	PART	_	34 die	mark
34	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 am	xcomp
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 served	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	serve	past	I	God five and the Great Sovereign	one night's service for you parataxis	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Attribute
2	not die	past	I not said here		of Sovereign	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of it=Causer
3	die	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	service		one night		for you	nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl

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 152

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 152