Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 113

Then the second night came: “Brothers, I read the prayers last night,” Ványa said; “it’s your turn; which of you will go?”

Who acts: second night, brothers, Ványa, hair · What happens: come, read, say, be, go · To what, where: Brothers, prayers, turn · 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 (second night, brothers, Ványa, hair), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
3	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 night	amod
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	advcl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Brothers	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 Brothers	punct
8	Brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 read	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 read	nsubj
11	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prayers	det
13	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 read	obj
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 night	amod
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 read	obl:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 read	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
18	Ványa	Ványa	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 turn	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 turn	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 turn	nsubj
23	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 turn	cop
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 turn	nmod:poss
25	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	ccomp
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 go	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 go	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 you	case
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 go	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 go	aux
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 go	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the second night	Brothers	then		tree rules
2	read in a quote	past	the brothers = brother	the prayers	night		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic
3	say speech: ask	past	Ványa				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is a in a quote	present	hair	your turn		your nmod:poss	tree rules
5	go in a quote	future				which nsubj; you nsubj	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 26, sentence 113

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 113