Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 106
Pray to the Saviour, and lie down and sleep, and I will think out some means of getting out of the danger.”
Who acts: you, I, some · What happens: pray, lie down, sleep, think out, mean, get out · To what, where: danger · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, some), 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 | Pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Saviour | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Saviour | det |
| 4 | Saviour | Saviour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Pray | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lie | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lie | cc |
| 7 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pray | conj |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 lie | compound:prt |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sleep | cc |
| 10 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 lie | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 think | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 think | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 think | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 think | aux |
| 15 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Pray | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 think | compound:prt |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 means | nsubj |
| 18 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 think | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 getting | mark |
| 20 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 means | ccomp |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 danger | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 danger | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 danger | det |
| 24 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 getting | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pray | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | imperative | you not said here | to the Saviour | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | lie down | infinitive | you not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sleep | infinitive | you not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | think out speech: other | future | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | mean | present | some | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | get out | gerund | the danger | tree rules |
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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