Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 85
So the old man said to Iván: “Ivánushka, pray to the Lord God, and go and buy a golden vessel and a _fatá_, and to-morrow go and make your homage to the king.”
Who acts: old man, Ivánushka · What happens: say, pray, go, buy, make · To what, where: Iván, golden vessel, morrow, homage · 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 (old man, Ivánushka), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Iván | case |
| 7 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 pray | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 pray | punct |
| 10 | Ivánushka | Ivánushka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 pray | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ivánushka | punct |
| 12 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 God | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 God | det |
| 15 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 God | compound |
| 16 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 pray | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 go | cc |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 pray | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 buy | cc |
| 21 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 go | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 vessel | det |
| 23 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 vessel | amod |
| 24 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 buy | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fatá | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 fatá | det |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 fatá | punct |
| 28 | fatá | fatá | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 vessel | conj |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 buy | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 go | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 go | cc |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 morrow | case |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 to | punct |
| 34 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 go | obl |
| 35 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 pray | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 make | cc |
| 37 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 go | conj |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 homage | nmod:poss |
| 39 | homage | homage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 make | obj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 king | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 king | det |
| 42 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 make | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | Iván | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to iván=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pray in a quote | infinitive | Ivánushka | to the Lord God | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | Ivánushka not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | buy in a quote | infinitive | Ivánushka not said here | a golden vessel and a fatá | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go in a quote | infinitive | Ivánushka not said here | morrow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | make in a quote | infinitive | Ivánushka not said here | your homage | to the king | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset homage=Product |
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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