Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 90

The Nightingale Robber saw them, and said, “My beloved sons, do not dishonour nor take such a bold knight, and so all receive your death from him; it would be better to ask his forgiveness in humbleness and to ask him into my house to have a goblet of green wine.”

Who acts: Nightingale Robber, beloved sons, it, your · What happens: see, say, not dishonour, take, receive, be · To what, where: husbands, bold knight, death, forgiveness, humbleness, ROBBER · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Nightingale Robber, beloved sons, it, your), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Robber	det
2	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Robber	compound
3	Robber	Robber	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sons	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 sons	punct
11	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 sons	nmod:poss
12	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sons	amod
13	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dishonour	punct
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 dishonour	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 dishonour	advmod
17	dishonour	dishonour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sons	acl:relcl
18	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	19 take	cc
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 dishonour	conj
20	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	23 knight	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 knight	det
22	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 knight	amod
23	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 receive	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 receive	cc
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 receive	advmod
27	all	all	ADV	_	28 receive	advmod
28	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 dishonour	conj
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 death	nmod:poss
30	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 receive	obj
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 receive	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 better	punct
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 better	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 better	aux
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 better	cop
37	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 saw	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 ask	mark
39	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 better	csubj
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 forgiveness	nmod:poss
41	forgiveness	forgiveness	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 ask	obj
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 humbleness	case
43	humbleness	humbleness	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 ask	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 ask	cc
45	to	to	PART	_	46 ask	mark
46	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 ask	conj
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 ask	obj
48	into	into	ADP	_	50 house	case
49	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 house	nmod:poss
50	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 ask	obl
51	to	to	PART	_	52 have	mark
52	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 ask	advcl
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 goblet	det
54	goblet	goblet	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 have	obj
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 wine	case
56	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 wine	amod
57	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 goblet	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
59	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the Nightingale Robber	husbands = husband				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the Nightingale Robber not said here				My beloved sons ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not dishonour in a quote	infinitive · do-support	My beloved sons not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	take in a quote	infinitive	My beloved sons not said here		such bold knight			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument knight=Destination
5	receive in a quote	infinitive	My beloved sons not said here	your death			from ROBBER; all property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent death=Theme from he=Source
6	is in a quote	would	it				good property	tree rules
7	ask speech: ask in a quote	to-infinitive		ROBBER's forgiveness		humbleness		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent forgiveness=Recipient
8	ask speech: ask in a quote	to-infinitive			ROBBER	my house		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
9	have in a quote	to-infinitive		a goblet of green wine				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goblet=Patient
10	die in a quote		your					nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 90

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 90