Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 12
“I am off to church, Gossip, to pray to God.”
What happens: be, pray · To what, where: God
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 church | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 am | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 church | cop |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 am | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 church | case |
| 6 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Gossip | punct |
| 8 | Gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 church | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pray | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 pray | mark |
| 11 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 church | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 God | case |
| 13 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 pray | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 church | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 church | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | to church and Gossip; Gossip conj | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pray in a quote | to-infinitive | God | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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