Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 78
So the son asked his father for leave to go into the open field for the last time on the horse, and the father agreed.
Who acts: son, father · What happens: ask, go, agree · To what, where: father, open field · 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, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 asked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 son | det |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 leave | case |
| 8 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 field | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 field | det |
| 13 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 field | amod |
| 14 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 horse | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 horse | det |
| 21 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 time | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 agreed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 agreed | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 father | det |
| 25 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 agreed | nsubj |
| 26 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the son | son's father | for leave | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the open field | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | past | the father | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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