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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 74

And they told the peasant, “Now you must keep and feed the dog, for he saved my child from the bear; and you were saying he had no strength!”

Who acts: BEAR, peasant · What happens: tell, keep, feed, save, say, have · To what, where: peasant, dog, child, bear, strength · 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 (BEAR, 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

ccnsubjdetobjpunctpunctadvmodnsubjauxconjccconjdetiobjpunctmarknsubjconjnmod:possobjcasedetoblpunctccnsubjauxccompnsubjccompdetobjpunctpunctrootAndCCONJtheyPRONtoldVERBtheDETpeasantNOUN,PUNCT“PUNCTNowADVyouPRONmustAUXkeepVERBandCCONJfeedVERBtheDETdogNOUN,PUNCTforSCONJhePRONsavedVERBmyPRONchildNOUNfromADPtheDETbearNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJyouPRONwereAUXsayingVERBhePRONhadVERBnoDETstrengthNOUN!PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_3 toldcc
2theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs3 toldnsubj
3toldtellVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 peasantdet
5peasantpeasantNOUNNumber=Sing3 toldobj
6,,PUNCT_11 keeppunct
7“"PUNCT_11 keeppunct
8NownowADVPronType=Dem11 keepadvmod
9youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs11 keepnsubj
10mustmustAUXVerbForm=Fin11 keepaux
11keepkeepVERBVerbForm=Inf3 toldconj
12andandCCONJ_13 feedcc
13feedfeedVERBVerbForm=Inf11 keepconj
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 dogdet
15dogdogNOUNNumber=Sing13 feediobj
16,,PUNCT_19 savedpunct
17forforSCONJ_19 savedmark
18hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 savednsubj
19savedsaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 feedconj
20mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 childnmod:poss
21childchildNOUNNumber=Sing19 savedobj
22fromfromADP_24 bearcase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 beardet
24bearbearNOUNNumber=Sing19 savedobl
25;;PUNCT_29 sayingpunct
26andandCCONJ_29 sayingcc
27youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs29 sayingnsubj
28werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 sayingaux
29sayingsayVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 toldccomp
30hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 hadnsubj
31hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 sayingccomp
32nonoDETPronType=Neg33 strengthdet
33strengthstrengthNOUNNumber=Sing31 hadobj
34!!PUNCT_29 sayingpunct
35”"PUNCT_29 sayingpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1tell speech: assertpastBEARthe peasantvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent peasant=Recipient clause=Topic
2keep in a quotemustthe peasant = peasantnowvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3feed in a quoteinfinitivethe peasant = peasant not said herethe dogvn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient
4save in a quotepastpeasantmy childthe bearvn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent child=Theme from bear=Source
5say speech: assert in a quotepast · progressivethe peasant = peasantvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6have in a quotepastpeasantno strengthvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient

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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