Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 12
So the peasant boy began to beseech Christ to have mercy on her.
Who acts: peasant boy · What happens: begin, beseech, have · To what, where: Christ, mercy
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant boy), 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 | _ | 5 began | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 3 | peasant | peasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 boy | amod |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 beseech | mark |
| 7 | beseech | beseech | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 beseech | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 beseech | xcomp |
| 11 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 have | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the peasant boy | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | beseech | to-infinitive | the peasant boy not said here | Christ | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | the peasant boy not said here | mercy | on mother | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mercy=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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