Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 125
The sister met them and greeted them, and the brothers said: “Please, sister, may we go and dine with the King?
Who acts: sister, brothers, we · What happens: meet, greet, say, go, dine · To what, where: brothers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, brothers, we), 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 | 2 sister | det |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 met | nsubj |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 met | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 greeted | cc |
| 6 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 met | conj |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 greeted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brothers | det |
| 11 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 met | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 15 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 17 sister | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Please | punct |
| 17 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 may | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sister | punct |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 go | aux |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 go | nsubj |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dine | cc |
| 23 | dine | dine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 go | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 King | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 King | det |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 dine | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the sister | brothers = brother | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | greet speech: greet | past | the sister not said here | brothers = brother | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the brothers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | may | we | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | dine in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | with the King | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=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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