Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 92
We will fare forth to my father’s court; he will wish to reward you with gold from his treasury and with precious stones: but do you take nothing of them.
Who acts: We, father, you · What happens: fare, wish, reward, take · To what, where: you, treasury, nothing
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 (We, father, you), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 fare | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 fare | aux |
| 3 | fare | fare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 fare | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 court | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 court | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 father | case |
| 9 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fare | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 wish | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wish | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 wish | aux |
| 13 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fare | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 reward | mark |
| 15 | reward | reward | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wish | xcomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 reward | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 gold | case |
| 18 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reward | obl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 treasury | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 treasury | nmod:poss |
| 21 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reward | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stones | cc |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 stones | case |
| 24 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stones | amod |
| 25 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 treasury | conj |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 take | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 take | cc |
| 28 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 take | aux |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 take | nsubj |
| 30 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fare | conj |
| 31 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 30 take | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 them | case |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 nothing | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fare | future | We | to my father's court; forth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wish | future | father | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | reward not said to happen | to-infinitive | father not said here | you | father's treasury and precious stones | with gold | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient with gold=Theme | ||
| 4 | take | present · do-support | you | nothing of stones | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
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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