Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 38

Sensible and wise—and the only prayer which the mother and father addressed to God and to his holy godfather St. Nicholas the Wonder-Worker, was that they should endow him with happiness and long life.

Who acts: mother · What happens: address, be · To what, where: only prayer, God

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 (mother), 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	Sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 wise	cc
3	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sensible	conj
4	—	-	PUNCT	_	8 prayer	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 prayer	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prayer	det
7	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 prayer	amod
8	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sensible	conj
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 addressed	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mother	det
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 addressed	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 father	cc
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mother	conj
14	addressed	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 prayer	acl:relcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 God	case
16	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 addressed	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 endow	cc
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 godfather	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 godfather	nmod:poss
20	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 godfather	amod
21	godfather	godfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 endow	obl
22	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Nicholas	nmod:desc
23	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 godfather	appos
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Worker	det
25	Wonder	Wonder	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Worker	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 Worker	punct
27	Worker	Worker	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Nicholas	appos
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 godfather	punct
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 endow	cop
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 endow	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 endow	nsubj
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 endow	aux
33	endow	endow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 addressed	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 endow	obj
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 happiness	case
36	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 endow	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 life	cc
38	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 life	amod
39	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 happiness	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Sensible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	address	past	the mother and father	the only prayer	God				vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Destination
2	is	should · past	mother					to God's holy godfather; with happiness and long life; NICHOLAS obj; endow property	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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 38

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 38