Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 109

“Brothers,” Vanyúshka said, “our father is dead: who of us will go and read prayers on his grave?”

Who acts: Vanyúshka, father · What happens: say, be, go, read · To what, where: 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 (Vanyúshka, father), 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 Brothers	punct
2	Brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Brothers	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Brothers	punct
5	Vanyúshka	Vanyúshka	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dead	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 dead	punct
9	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dead	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dead	cop
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 go	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 us	case
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 who	obl
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 read	cc
20	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 go	conj
21	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 read	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 grave	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 grave	nmod:poss
24	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 read	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	Vanyúshka			Brothers ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	our father			dead property	tree rules
3	go in a quote	future				who of us nsubj	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	read in a quote	infinitive		prayers	Father's 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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 109

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 109