Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 20

And he began to beseech him: “Do come, Petrúsha, and be my guest, and I will give you a reward—gold and silver—all you wish.”

Who acts: Petrúsha, you · What happens: begin, beseech, come, be, give, wish · To what, where: Petrúsha, guest, reward, you · 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 (Petrúsha, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 began	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 beseech	mark
5	beseech	beseech	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 beseech	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
9	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
10	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Petrúsha	punct
12	Petrúsha	Petrúsha	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 guest	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 guest	cc
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 guest	cop
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 guest	nmod:poss
17	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 give	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 give	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 give	aux
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 come	conj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 give	iobj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 reward	det
25	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obj
26	—	-	PUNCT	_	27 gold	punct
27	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reward	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 silver	cc
29	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reward	conj
30	—	-	PUNCT	_	31 all	punct
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 give	obj
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 wish	nsubj
33	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 all	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Petrúsha				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	beseech	to-infinitive	Petrúsha not said here	Petrúsha			tree rules
3	come in a quote	infinitive · do-support		Petrúsha			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a in a quote	infinitive		my guest		my nmod:poss	tree rules
5	give in a quote	future	Petrúsha	a reward and gold and silver	you		tree rules
6	wish in a quote	present	you				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP 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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 20

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 20