Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 137
“Lord,” he said, “have forgiveness on my sins, for I cannot buy any oil with which to fill the lamp in front of Thy icon for Thy feast.”
Who acts: Lord · What happens: say, have, not buy, fill · To what, where: forgiveness, sins, oil, lamp, front · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lord | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lord | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 10 | forgiveness | forgiveness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 sins | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sins | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sins | sin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 have | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 buy | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 buy | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 buy | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 buy | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 buy | advmod |
| 19 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 have | parataxis |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 oil | det |
| 21 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 buy | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 buy | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 fill | mark |
| 25 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 buy | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 lamp | det |
| 27 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fill | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 front | case |
| 29 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fill | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 icon | case |
| 31 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 icon | nmod:poss |
| 32 | icon | icon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 front | nmod |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 feast | case |
| 34 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 feast | nmod:poss |
| 35 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fill | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Lord | lord nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | forgiveness | my sins | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forgiveness=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not buy in a quote | can | Lord | any oil | which obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent oil=Beneficiary which=Theme | |||
| 4 | fill in a quote | to-infinitive | Lord not said here | the lamp | front of Thy icon | for Thy feast | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lamp=Patient |
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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