Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 138

“Come,” said the old man, “we will change crosses; you become my brother by the cross.”

Who acts: old man, we, you · What happens: come, say, change, become · To what, where: crosses, brother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, we, 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	5 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 change	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 change	punct
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 change	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 change	aux
13	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
14	crosses	cross	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 change	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 become	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 become	nsubj
17	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 brother	nmod:poss
19	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 become	xcomp
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 cross	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cross	det
22	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 become	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the old man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	change in a quote	future	we	crosses		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Patient
4	become in a quote	present	you	my brother	by the cross	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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 19, sentence 138

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 138