Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 102
And he himself lay down on his bed, bade farewell to his wife and son, and he begged Death that he might die.
Who acts: nosebag · What happens: lie down, beg, die · To what, where: bed, Death
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nosebag), 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 | _ | 4 lay | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 2 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 lay | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 bed | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bed | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bade | punct |
| 10 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bed | conj |
| 11 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 4 lay | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 wife | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 son | cc |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wife | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 begged | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 begged | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 begged | nsubj |
| 20 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | conj |
| 21 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 begged | obj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 die | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 die | nsubj |
| 24 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 die | aux |
| 25 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 begged | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | nosebag | nosebag's bed and bade | to nosebag's wife and son; down, farewell property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | nosebag | Death | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent death=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | die not said to happen | might | nosebag | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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