Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 63
And he asked leave of his father and mother to go out into the white world and to seek himself a bride.
Who acts: son, leave · What happens: ask, go out, seek · To what, where: leave, white world, son
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 (son, leave), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 asked | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 father | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 mother | cc |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 father | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | xcomp |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 world | amod |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 seek | cc |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 seek | mark |
| 19 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | conj |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 seek | obj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 bride | det |
| 22 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seek | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | son | leave of son's father and mother | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent leave=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go out not said to happen | to-infinitive | leave of son's father and mother not said here | the white world | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | leave of son's father and mother not said here | son | a bride obj | 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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