Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 116

“Forgive me, Márya Moryévna; let bygones be bygones: come away with me now, whilst Koshchéy the Deathless is away: possibly he may not catch us up.”

Who acts: you, bygones, Koshchéy · What happens: forgive, let, be, come away, not catch up · To what, where: Crow, bygones, us

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bygones, Koshchéy), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Forgive	punct
2	Forgive	forgive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Forgive	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Márya	punct
5	Márya	Márya	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Forgive	obj
6	Moryévna	Moryévna	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Márya	flat
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
8	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Forgive	parataxis
9	bygones	bygone	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bygones	nsubj
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 bygones	cop
11	bygones	bygone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 let	xcomp
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
13	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 let	conj
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 come	obl
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 come	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Koshchéy	punct
19	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	20 Koshchéy	case
20	Koshchéy	Koshchéy	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 away	nsubj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Deathless	det
22	Deathless	Deathless	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Koshchéy	appos
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 away	cop
24	away	away	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 catch	punct
26	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	30 catch	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 catch	nsubj
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 catch	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 catch	advmod
30	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	conj
31	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 catch	obj
32	up	up	ADP	_	30 catch	compound:prt
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Forgive	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Forgive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	forgive in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the Crow = crow		Márya obj	tree rules
2	let in a quote	infinitive					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	infinitive	bygones	bygones			tree rules
4	come away in a quote	infinitive			now	with the Crow = crow; away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is in a quote	present	Koshchéy			away property	tree rules
6	not catch up in a quote	may	Koshchéy	us		possibly property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 116

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 116