Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 139

Console my father, console my guiding light, my father, and tell my mother of me, and my sisters, the little doves.

Who acts: you, my · What happens: console, tell, light · To what, where: father, mother, sisters · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (you, my), 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	Console	console	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Console	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 console	punct
5	console	console	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 father	conj
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 light	nmod:poss
7	guiding	guiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 light	compound
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Console	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 father	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 light	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tell	cc
14	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Console	conj
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sisters	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sisters	cc
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 sisters	nmod:poss
22	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tell	iobj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 doves	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 doves	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 doves	amod
26	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sisters	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Console	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	console	imperative	you not said here	my father and console		my guiding light and my father obj	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus father=Experiencer light=Result
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	my mother of me	my sisters and the little doves		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient mother=Topic
3	light		my				nom light «phenomenon 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 5, sentence 139

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 139