Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 56
“Ye, my masters, my mother and father, let me go into the famous city of Kíev, to pray to God and to do homage to our prince at Kíev.”
Who acts: you, Ye · What happens: let, go, pray, do · To what, where: Ye, famous city, God, homage, Kíev
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Ye), 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 | _ | 2 Ye | punct |
| 2 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 let | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 masters | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 masters | nmod:poss |
| 5 | masters | master | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Ye | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mother | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ye | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 father | cc |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mother | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ye | punct |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 city | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 city | det |
| 17 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 city | amod |
| 18 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Kíev | case |
| 20 | Kíev | Kíev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 city | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pray | punct |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 pray | mark |
| 23 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 let | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 God | case |
| 25 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 pray | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 do | cc |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 do | mark |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 pray | conj |
| 29 | homage | homage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 do | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 prince | case |
| 31 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 prince | nmod:poss |
| 32 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 do | obl |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 Kíev | case |
| 34 | Kíev | Kíev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 do | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Ye my masters my mother and father | me obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | Ye my masters my mother and father not said here | the famous city of Kíev | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into city=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | pray in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | God | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | homage | Kíev | to our prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homage=Eventuality |
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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