Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 34

“Come along,” he said; “give me some written undertaking that you will always serve me faithfully.”

Who acts: soldier, you · What happens: come along, say, give, write, undertake, serve · To what, where: soldier, some · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (soldier, you), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
3	along	along	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
10	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 give	iobj
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 written	nsubj:pass
13	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 give	xcomp
14	undertaking	undertake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 written	advcl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 serve	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 serve	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 serve	aux
18	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	19 serve	advmod
19	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 undertaking	advcl
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 serve	obj
21	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	19 serve	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come along in a quote	infinitive				along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	soldier				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give in a quote	infinitive			soldier		tree rules
4	write in a quote	participle · passive		some			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	undertake in a quote	gerund					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	serve in a quote	future	you	soldier		always, faithfully property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 34

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 34