Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 140
And he asked him for the third time: “Do please speak on my behalf to God!”
Who acts: peasant · What happens: ask, speak · To what, where: GIPSY, behalf · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 asked | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | iobj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 speak | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 speak | punct |
| 11 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 speak | aux |
| 12 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 13 speak | discourse |
| 13 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 behalf | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 behalf | nmod:poss |
| 16 | behalf | behalf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 speak | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 God | case |
| 18 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 behalf | nmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 speak | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | peasant | GIPSY | time | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other in a quote | infinitive · do-support | my behalf to God | vn talk-37.5 «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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