Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 99
Then the king said: “If one of you will read some psalms for three nights to my daughter who is now in the church, you may keep the ship.”
Who acts: king, one, daughter, you · What happens: say, read, be, keep · To what, where: psalms, daughter, church, ship · 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 (king, one, daughter, you), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 read | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 read | punct |
| 7 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 read | mark |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 read | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 one | nmod |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 read | aux |
| 12 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 psalms | det |
| 14 | psalms | psalm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 read | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 nights | case |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 nights | nummod |
| 17 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 read | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 daughter | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 20 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 read | obl |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 church | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 church | cop |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 church | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 church | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 church | det |
| 26 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 keep | punct |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 keep | nsubj |
| 29 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 keep | aux |
| 30 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 read | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 ship | det |
| 32 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 keep | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 read | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | read a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | one of you | some psalms | my daughter | night | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent psalm=Topic to daughter=Recipient | ||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | my daughter | the church | now | tree rules | |||
| 4 | keep in a quote | may | you | the ship | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=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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