Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 40

Then they were both very glad, and said, “Now we are healthy, we will again talk of our own rights; but we must first settle our account with Bába Yagá.

Who acts: legs, we, our · What happens: be, say, talk, settle, account · To what, where: account · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legs, we, our), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 glad	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 glad	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 glad	cop
4	both	both	ADV	_	6 glad	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 glad	advmod
6	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 glad	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 healthy	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 healthy	punct
12	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 healthy	advmod
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 healthy	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 healthy	cop
15	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 healthy	punct
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 talk	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 talk	aux
19	again	again	ADV	_	20 talk	advmod
20	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 rights	case
22	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 rights	nmod:poss
23	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 rights	amod
24	rights	right	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 talk	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 settle	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 settle	cc
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 settle	nsubj
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 settle	aux
29	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 settle	advmod
30	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 glad	conj
31	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 account	nmod:poss
32	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 settle	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 Bába	case
34	Bába	Bába	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 settle	obl
35	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Bába	flat
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	legs = leg		then	both, glad property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	legs = leg not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	we		now	healthy property	tree rules
4	talk in a quote	future	we		again	of our own rights	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	settle in a quote	must	we	our account		with Bába; first property	vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent account=Theme with bába=Location
6	account in a quote		our				nom account «communication transitive»: 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 39, sentence 40

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 40