Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 63

“Come to me, good Christians, and drink strong beer here, such beer as you never saw in your life!”

Who acts: you · What happens: come, drink, not see · To what, where: good Christians, tale, strong beer, life

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 (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Come	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Christians	punct
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Christians	amod
7	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 Come	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 drink	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 drink	cc
10	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Come	conj
11	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 beer	amod
12	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drink	obj
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 drink	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 beer	punct
15	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 beer	amod
16	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drink	obl
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 saw	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 saw	advmod
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 drink	advcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 life	case
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 life	nmod:poss
23	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saw	obl
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	imperative	you not said here	good Christians	tale			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
2	drink in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	strong beer		here	such beer obl	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Patient
3	not see in a quote	past	you			your life		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 63

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 63