Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 144
That very Tuesday the youth set out on the footpath, and said: “The Lord bless me!” and set out on his way journeying forth.
Who acts: Lord, way · What happens: set out, say, bless, journey · To what, where: youth, footpath, me, way · 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 (Lord, way), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Tuesday | nsubj |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 Tuesday | advmod |
| 3 | Tuesday | Tuesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 youth | det |
| 5 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Tuesday | appos |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 youth | acl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 set | compound:prt |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 footpath | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 footpath | det |
| 10 | footpath | footpath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 bless | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 bless | punct |
| 16 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Lord | det |
| 17 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 bless | nsubj |
| 18 | bless | bless | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 bless | obj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 bless | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 bless | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 set | cc |
| 23 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 set | compound:prt |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 way | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 way | nmod:poss |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 set | obl |
| 28 | journeying | journey | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 way | acl |
| 29 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 28 journeying | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | participle | the youth not said here | the footpath | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | tuesday | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bless in a quote | infinitive | the Lord | me | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | set out | past | Lord's way | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | journey | gerund | Lord's way not said here | forth property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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