Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 134
“Stay,” the rich brother said to him: “Come with your wife to-morrow and be my guests.
Who acts: rich brother · What happens: stay, say, come, be · To what, where: man, morrow, guests · 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 (rich brother), 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 | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 2 | Stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 brother | det |
| 6 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 brother | amod |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Come | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Come | punct |
| 13 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | parataxis |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 wife | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Come | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 morrow | case |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 to | punct |
| 19 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Come | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 guests | cc |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 guests | cop |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 guests | nmod:poss |
| 23 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Come | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay in a quote | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the rich brother | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | infinitive | morrow | with your wife | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | infinitive | my guests | my nmod:poss | 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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