Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 52

Iván and Olyóna knelt down and began to beseech him, but the old man said: “Beg no more of me, but rather thank God for sending me to you.

Who acts: Iván, old man · What happens: kneel down, begin, beseech, say, beg, thank · To what, where: Iván, more, God, old man · 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, old man), 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	Iván	Iván	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 knelt	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Olyóna	cc
3	Olyóna	Olyóna	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Iván	conj
4	knelt	kneel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 knelt	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 began	cc
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knelt	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 beseech	mark
9	beseech	beseech	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 beseech	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knelt	parataxis
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 Beg	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 Beg	punct
19	Beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
20	no	no	ADV	_	21 more	advmod
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 Beg	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 me	case
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 more	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thank	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 thank	cc
26	rather	rather	ADV	_	27 thank	advmod
27	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 Beg	conj
28	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 thank	obj
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 sending	mark
30	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 thank	advcl
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 sending	iobj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 you	case
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 sending	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	kneel down	past	Iván and Olyóna				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	Iván and Olyóna not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	beseech	to-infinitive	Iván and Olyóna not said here	Iván			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	the old man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	beg speech: request in a quote	infinitive		more of me			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent more=Recipient
6	thank speech: thank in a quote	present			God		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme
7	send in a quote	gerund			the old man = man	to you	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to you=Destination

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 52

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 52