Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 128
So the woman cooked the pancake for the Saviour and the twelve Apostles, telling them: “Come and eat of the good fare, kinsmen, which God has sent.”
Who acts: woman · What happens: cook, tell, come, eat, send · To what, where: pancake, Apostles, good fare · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 cooked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cooked | nsubj |
| 4 | cooked | cook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pancake | det |
| 6 | pancake | pancake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cooked | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 Saviour | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Saviour | det |
| 9 | Saviour | Saviour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cooked | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Apostles | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Apostles | det |
| 12 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 Apostles | nummod |
| 13 | Apostles | Apostle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 Saviour | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 telling | punct |
| 15 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 cooked | advcl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 telling | iobj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 Come | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Come | punct |
| 19 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cooked | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 eat | cc |
| 21 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 Come | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 fare | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fare | det |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fare | amod |
| 25 | fare | fare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 eat | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 kinsmen | punct |
| 27 | kinsmen | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fare | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sent | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 sent | aux |
| 32 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 fare | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 Come | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | past | the woman | the pancake | for the Saviour and the twelve Apostles | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | the woman not said here | Apostles = apostle | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | eat in a quote | infinitive | of the good fare and kinsmen | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of fare=Source | |||||
| 5 | send in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the good fare and kinsmen | God nsubj:pass | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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