Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 79
“O Vasilísa the Wise, I am afflicted for my father and my mother, and desire to behold Holy Russia.”
Who acts: desire · What happens: afflict, behold · To what, where: Vasilísa, Holy Russia
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (desire), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 afflicted | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 Vasilísa | discourse |
| 3 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 afflicted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Wise | det |
| 5 | Wise | Wise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Vasilísa | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 afflicted | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 afflicted | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 afflicted | aux:pass |
| 9 | afflicted | afflict | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 father | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 afflicted | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 mother | cc |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 father | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 behold | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 behold | cc |
| 18 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 behold | nsubj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 behold | case |
| 20 | behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 afflicted | conj |
| 21 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | _ | 22 Russia | compound |
| 22 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 behold | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 afflicted | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 afflicted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | afflict in a quote | present · passive | Vasilísa | for my father and my mother; I nsubj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | behold in a quote | infinitive | desire | Holy Russia | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer russia=Stimulus |
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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