Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 61
Lay hold of him and bring him to me.”
What happens: bring, hold · To what, where: Katomá, me, Lay hold
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: 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 | Lay | lay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hold | amod |
| 2 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hold | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bring | cc |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hold | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bring | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 bring | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hold | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | infinitive | Katomá | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to i=Destination | ||||
| 3 | hold | Katomá | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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