Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 127

So he came to the rich man and asked him: “Brother, help me in my sorrow, for my wife and children sit at home without any bread and are starving.”

Who acts: peasant, Brother, wife, my · What happens: come, ask, help, sit, starve, sorrow · To what, where: peasant, sorrow, home · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant, Brother, wife, my), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 man	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 asked	cc
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asked	iobj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 help	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 help	punct
13	Brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 help	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Brother	punct
15	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	ccomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 help	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 sorrow	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 sorrow	nmod:poss
19	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 help	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sit	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 sit	mark
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wife	nmod:poss
23	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sit	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 children	cc
25	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wife	conj
26	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 help	parataxis
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 home	case
28	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sit	obl
29	without	without	ADP	_	31 bread	case
30	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 bread	det
31	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sit	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 starving	cc
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 starving	aux
34	starving	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 sit	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 help	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	peasant			to the rich man	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to man=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	peasant not said here	peasant			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	help in a quote	infinitive	Brother	peasant	my sorrow		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
4	sit in a quote	present	my wife and children		home	without any bread	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location
5	starve in a quote	present · progressive	my wife and children not said here				tree rules
6	sorrow in a quote		my				nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 127

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 127