Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 73

So the merchant agreed at once, summoned his son and said, “Now, my son, I want to cut the throat of your horse: your mother is ill, and I must cure her.”

Who acts: merchant, mother · What happens: agree, summon, say, want, cut, be · To what, where: son, throat, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, mother), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 agreed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 merchant	det
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 agreed	nsubj
4	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 agreed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 summoned	punct
8	summoned	summon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 agreed	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 son	nmod:poss
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 summoned	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 summoned	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 son	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 son	punct
15	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 son	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Now	punct
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 son	nmod:poss
18	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 want	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 want	nsubj
21	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 agreed	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 cut	mark
23	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 want	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 throat	det
25	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cut	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 horse	case
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 horse	nmod:poss
28	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 throat	nmod
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 ill	punct
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 mother	nmod:poss
31	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ill	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 ill	cop
33	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 want	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 cure	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 cure	cc
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 cure	nsubj
37	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 cure	aux
38	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 ill	conj
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 cure	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 ill	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	the merchant				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	summon	past	the merchant not said here		merchant's son		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	the merchant not said here			my son ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	want in a quote	present	the merchant = merchant				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	cut not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the merchant = merchant not said here	the throat of your horse			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset throat=Product
6	is not said to happen, in a quote	present	your mother			ill property	tree rules
7	cure in a quote	must	the merchant = merchant	mother			vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Source

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 28, sentence 73

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 73