Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 98
And Iván went down on his knees and besought him that he would let them go.
Who acts: Iván, knees · What happens: go down, beseech, let, go · To what, where: knees, Iván
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 (Iván, knees), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 knees | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 knees | nmod:poss |
| 7 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 besought | cc |
| 9 | besought | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 besought | obj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 let | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 let | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 let | aux |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 besought | advcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 let | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | Iván | Iván's knees | down property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location | |||
| 2 | beseech | past | Iván not said here | Iván | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let | would | Iván | knees = knee | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | knees = knee not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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