Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 56

Come with me as my clerk, and I will obey you as I would have obeyed my own father.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: come, obey · To what, where: you, own father

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), 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	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 me	case
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Come	obl
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 clerk	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 clerk	nmod:poss
6	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Come	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 obey	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 obey	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 obey	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 obey	aux
11	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Come	conj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 obey	obj
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 obeyed	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 obeyed	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 obeyed	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 obeyed	aux
17	obeyed	obey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 obey	advcl
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 father	amod
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 obeyed	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here		with me; as my clerk	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	obey	future	I	you		vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	obey	would · perfect	I	my own father		vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme

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 56

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 56