Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 124

But the miller said to him, “Soldier, stay the night with me: it is late and you might come by some mishap.”

Who acts: miller, Soldier, husband · What happens: say, stay, be, come · To what, where: husband · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miller, Soldier, husband), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 miller	det
3	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stay	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 stay	punct
9	Soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stay	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Soldier	punct
11	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 night	det
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stay	obl:unmarked
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 stay	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 late	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 late	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 late	cop
19	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 come	cc
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 come	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 late	conj
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 mishap	case
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 mishap	det
26	mishap	mishap	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 late	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 late	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the miller	husband			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stay in a quote	infinitive	Soldier		night	with the miller = miller	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location
3	is in a quote	present	soldier			late property	tree rules
4	come in a quote	might	husband			by some mishap	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by mishap=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 124

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 124