Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 109
The devil besought him: “Let me go, Father, I will do you any service I can; I will, I will!”
Who acts: devil, Bátyushka · What happens: beseech, let, go, do · To what, where: archimandrite, Bátyushka, service, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (devil, Bátyushka), 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 devil | det |
| 2 | devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 besought | nsubj |
| 3 | besought | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 besought | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Let | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Let | punct |
| 7 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 besought | ccomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 Let | obj |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Let | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Father | punct |
| 11 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Let | vocative |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Let | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 do | iobj |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 service | det |
| 18 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 do | obj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 can | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 service | acl:relcl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 will | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 will | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 besought | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 will | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 will | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 besought | advcl |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 26 will | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 besought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beseech | past | the devil | archimandrite | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | the devil not said here | Bátyushka | Father vocative | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | Bátyushka not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | future | Bátyushka | any service | you | tree rules |
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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