Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 74
So Iván the merchant’s son wept bitterly and said, “Oh, father, you wish to take away from me my last luck!”
Who acts: son, you · What happens: weep, say, wish, take away · To what, where: last luck · 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 (son, you), 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 | _ | 7 wept | advmod |
| 2 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 So | flat |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 merchant | det |
| 4 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 merchant | case |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wept | nsubj |
| 7 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 7 wept | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wept | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 father | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 father | punct |
| 13 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 15 father | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Oh | punct |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wish | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 wish | nsubj |
| 18 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wept | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 take | mark |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wish | xcomp |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 take | advmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 take | obl |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 luck | nmod:poss |
| 25 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 luck | amod |
| 26 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 wept | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | the merchant's son | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the merchant's son not said here | father ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wish in a quote | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take away not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | my last luck | from the merchant's son = son; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent luck=Theme from i=Initial_Location |
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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