Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 40

Their mother and father had died: when they were dying they bade the son, “Whoever come first as a suitor for your sisters’ hands, let them take them; do not keep them long with you.”

Who acts: mother, Whoever · What happens: die, bade, come, let, take, not keep · To what, where: son, mother

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 (mother, Whoever), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 father	cc
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mother	conj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 died	aux
6	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 dying	punct
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 dying	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dying	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dying	aux
11	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 died	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bade	nsubj
13	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dying	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 son	det
15	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bade	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
18	Whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 come	nsubj
19	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 son	acl
20	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 come	advmod
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 suitor	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 suitor	det
23	suitor	suitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
24	for	for	ADP	_	28 hands	case
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 sisters	nmod:poss
26	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hands	nmod:poss
27	’	's	PART	_	26 sisters	case
28	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 come	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 let	punct
30	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 come	parataxis
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 let	obj
32	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 let	xcomp
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 take	obj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 keep	punct
35	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	37 keep	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 keep	advmod
37	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 died	advcl
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 keep	obj
39	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 keep	xcomp
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 you	case
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 long	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 keep	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	37 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	die	past · perfect	chambers's mother and father			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	die	past · progressive	mother			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	bade	past	mother	the son		tree rules
4	come in a quote	present	Whoever		as a suitor; for your sisters's hands; first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	let in a quote	infinitive		mother		tree rules
6	take in a quote	infinitive	mother not said here	mother		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
7	not keep in a quote	infinitive · do-support	chambers's mother and father not said here	mother	long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 40

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 40