Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 37

Then he said to his father-in-law: “Good father, let me go home and have a Mass said for my father and mother, and once more see my home.”

Who acts: Iván, Good father, Mass · What happens: say, let, go, have, see · To what, where: father, Iván, home · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván, Good father, Mass), 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	3 said	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 father	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 law	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 law	case
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 in	punct
10	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 father	nmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
13	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 father	amod
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 let	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 father	punct
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
19	home	home	ADV	_	18 go	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 have	cc
21	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 let	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 Mass	det
23	Mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 have	ccomp
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 father	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 father	nmod:poss
27	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 mother	cc
29	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 father	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 see	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 see	cc
32	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	34 see	advmod
33	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 see	advmod
34	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	conj
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 home	nmod:poss
36	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 see	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Iván		Iván's father in law	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient clause=Topic
2	let in a quote	infinitive	Good father	Iván				tree rules
3	go in a quote	infinitive	Iván not said here				home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have in a quote	present	Good father not said here					tree rules
5	say speech: assert in a quote	past	a Mass				for my father and mother	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	see in a quote	infinitive	Good father not said here	my home			once property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer home=Stimulus

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 22, sentence 37

The tree

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 37