Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 136
“With God’s help get it ready, and stay here quietly waiting.”
Who acts: you, God · What happens: get, stay, wait, help · To what, where: help
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, God), 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 | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 2 | With | with | ADP | _ | 5 help | case |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 help | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 God | case |
| 5 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obl |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 get | obj |
| 8 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 get | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stay | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stay | cc |
| 11 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | conj |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 stay | advmod |
| 13 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 14 waiting | advmod |
| 14 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 stay | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | imperative | you not said here | help | with God's help; ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | stay in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wait in a quote | gerund | you not said here | quietly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | help in a quote | God | nom help «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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