Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 82
The elder brother said: “Sister, give me your blessing, and I’ll go and discover you these marvels.
Who acts: elder brother, Sister, your · What happens: say, give, go, discover, bless · To what, where: blessing, elder brother, you · 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 (elder brother, Sister, 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 brother | det |
| 2 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 7 | Sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sister | punct |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 12 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 go | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 16 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 give | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 discover | cc |
| 19 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 give | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 discover | obj |
| 21 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 marvels | det |
| 22 | marvels | marvel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 discover | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the elder brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | infinitive | Sister | your blessing | the elder brother = brother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient blessing=Theme | |||
| 3 | go in a quote | future | the elder brother = brother | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | discover in a quote | infinitive | Sister not said here | you | this marvels obj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | bless in a quote | your | nom blessing «act transitive»: 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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