Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 59
And he ever prayed and blessed God and Nicholas the Wonder-Worker for the mercy they had manifested to him.
Who acts: Iván, grandsons · What happens: pray, bless, manifest · To what, where: God, mercy, Iván
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, grandsons), 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 | _ | 4 prayed | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 prayed | nsubj |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 prayed | advmod |
| 4 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 blessed | cc |
| 6 | blessed | bless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 prayed | conj |
| 7 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 blessed | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Nicholas | cc |
| 9 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 God | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Worker | det |
| 11 | Wonder | Wonder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Worker | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Wonder | punct |
| 13 | Worker | Worker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 blessed | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 mercy | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mercy | det |
| 16 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blessed | obl |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 manifested | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 manifested | aux |
| 19 | manifested | manifest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 mercy | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 manifested | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 prayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | past | Iván | ever | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | bless | past | Iván not said here | God and Nicholas | for the mercy; the Wonder Worker obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | manifest | past · perfect | grandsons = grandson | the mercy not said here | Iván | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mercy=Theme to he=Recipient |
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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