Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 59
Ilyá Múromets took the blessing of his father and mother, prayed to God, bade farewell to his father and mother, and set forth on his way and road.
Who acts: Ilyá · What happens: take, pray, set, bless · To what, where: blessing, God, way, father
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 (Ilyá), 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 | Ilyá | Ilyá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | Múromets | Múromet | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Ilyá | flat |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 blessing | det |
| 5 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 father | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blessing | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 mother | cc |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 father | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 prayed | punct |
| 12 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 God | case |
| 14 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 prayed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bade | punct |
| 16 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 God | conj |
| 17 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 20 father | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 father | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prayed | advcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 mother | cc |
| 22 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 father | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 set | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 set | cc |
| 25 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | advcl |
| 26 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 25 set | advmod |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 way | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 way | nmod:poss |
| 29 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 set | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 road | cc |
| 31 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 way | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Ilyá | the blessing of Ilyá's father and mother | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pray | past | Ilyá not said here | God and bade | Ilyá's father and mother advcl | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 3 | set | infinitive | Ilyá not said here | Ilyá's way and road | forth property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on way=Destination | |||
| 4 | bless | Ilyá's father and mother | nom blessing «act transitive»: of=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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