Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 41
One day the father called Iván to him, and said: “Now, our beloved son, we, it seems, shall soon die; but do you not weep for us, but rather pray God.
Who acts: father, beloved son, Iván · What happens: call, say, seem, die, not weep, pray · To what, where: Iván, God · 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 (father, beloved son, Iván), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 father | det |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | nsubj |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 called | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 called | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 seems | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 seems | punct |
| 14 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 seems | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Now | punct |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 son | amod |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seems | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 son | punct |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 seems | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 seems | punct |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 seems | nsubj |
| 23 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 die | punct |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 die | aux |
| 26 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 die | advmod |
| 27 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 seems | conj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 weep | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 weep | cc |
| 30 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 weep | aux |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 weep | nsubj |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 weep | advmod |
| 33 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 called | conj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 us | case |
| 35 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 weep | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 pray | punct |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 pray | cc |
| 38 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 39 pray | advmod |
| 39 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 weep | conj |
| 40 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 pray | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past | the father | Iván | Iván | day | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent iván=Topic to he=Recipient | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the father not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | seem in a quote | present | our beloved son | now | we nsubj; it nsubj | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | die in a quote | shall | our beloved son not said here | soon property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | not weep in a quote | present · do-support | Iván | for us | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | pray in a quote | infinitive | Iván not said here | God | 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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