Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 102
“Now, children,” he said to them, “I shall die; do you come and read prayers over my grave.”
Who acts: children, grandfathers · What happens: say, die, come, read · To what, where: grandfathers, prayers, grave · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, grandfathers), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 children | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 children | punct |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 children | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 children | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 die | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 die | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 die | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 die | aux |
| 15 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 come | nsubj |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 die | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 read | cc |
| 21 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 come | conj |
| 22 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 read | obj |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 grave | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 grave | nmod:poss |
| 25 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 read | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | children | grandfathers = grandfather | tale nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | die in a quote | shall | children = child | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present · do-support | grandfathers = grandfather | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | read in a quote | infinitive | grandfathers = grandfather not said here | prayers | my grave | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic |
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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