Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 147
“Brother of Christ!” they said to him, “speak of us to Christ, how long we must remain in torture?”
Who acts: Brother, we · What happens: say, remain · To what, where: speak, Lord, torture · 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 (Brother, we), 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 Brother | punct |
| 2 | Brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Christ | case |
| 4 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Brother | nmod |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Christ | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Christ | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 speak | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 speak | punct |
| 13 | speak | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 us | case |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 speak | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Christ | case |
| 17 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 remain | punct |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 long | advmod |
| 20 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 remain | advmod |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 remain | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 remain | aux |
| 23 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 torture | case |
| 25 | torture | torture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 remain | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 remain | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 remain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Brother of Christ | speak of us | Lord | to Christ; maidens = maiden nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||
| 2 | remain in a quote | must | we | torture | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in torture=Location |
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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