Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 16
And he brought it to Christ, Who said: “Now you have been weaving this rope for thirty years and have laboured sufficiently for your mother, rescue her out of Hell.”
Who acts: Lord, Christ, you · What happens: bring, say, weave, labour, rescue · To what, where: rope, Christ, mother, Hell · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Lord, Christ, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 brought | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Christ | case |
| 6 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Christ | acl:relcl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 weaving | punct |
| 12 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 weaving | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 weaving | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 weaving | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 weaving | aux |
| 16 | weaving | weave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 rope | det |
| 18 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 weaving | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 years | case |
| 20 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 years | nummod |
| 21 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 weaving | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 laboured | cc |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 laboured | aux |
| 24 | laboured | labour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 weaving | conj |
| 25 | sufficiently | sufficiently | ADV | _ | 24 laboured | advmod |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 mother | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 mother | nmod:poss |
| 28 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 laboured | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 rescue | punct |
| 30 | rescue | rescue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 brought | conj |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 rescue | obj |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 Hell | case |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Hell | case |
| 34 | Hell | Hell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 rescue | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | Lord | rope | Christ | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to christ=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Christ | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | weave in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | you | this rope | now; year | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Product | |||
| 4 | labour in a quote | present · perfect | you not said here | for your mother; sufficiently property | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | rescue in a quote | infinitive | Lord not said here | mother | Hell | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme out hell=Source |
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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