Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 82
Koshchéy asked Iván Tsarévich, “Have pity on me: give me something to eat.
Who acts: Koshchéy · What happens: ask, have, give, eat · To what, where: Iván, pity, something, Koshchéy · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | Koshchéy | Koshchéy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | iobj |
| 4 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Iván | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Have | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Have | punct |
| 7 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 8 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Have | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 Have | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Have | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 give | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 eat | mark |
| 16 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 something | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Koshchéy | Iván | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent iván=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | pity | on Koshchéy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | infinitive | something | Koshchéy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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