Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 79

Once all three were lunching together, and in a cage there was a Nightingale singing over the table, singing so woefully that the merchant could not bear it, and he said, “If there ever were a man who could really tell me what that Nightingale is saying and the doom he is foreboding, I should like to meet him: I would give him in my life half of my possessions, and after my death I would bequeath him many goods.”

Who acts: three, Nightingale, merchant, cock, man, doom · What happens: lunch, sing, not bear, say, be, tell · To what, where: cage, table, Nightingale, man, cock, life half · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three, Nightingale, merchant, cock), 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	Once	once	SCONJ	_	5 lunching	mark
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 three	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 lunching	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lunching	aux
5	lunching	lunch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	together	together	ADV	_	5 lunching	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cage	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cage	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 cage	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cage	det
11	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lunching	obl
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 was	expl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cage	acl:relcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 Nightingale	det
15	Nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 was	nsubj
16	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 Nightingale	acl
17	over	over	ADP	_	19 table	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 table	det
19	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 singing	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 singing	punct
21	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 singing	conj
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 woefully	advmod
23	woefully	woefully	ADV	_	21 singing	advmod
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 bear	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 merchant	det
26	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bear	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 bear	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 bear	advmod
29	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 singing	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bear	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 said	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 said	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 said	nsubj
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 was	parataxis
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 man	punct
36	“	"	PUNCT	_	42 man	punct
37	If	if	SCONJ	_	40 were	mark
38	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	40 were	expl
39	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	40 were	advmod
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 man	cop
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 man	det
42	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 said	ccomp
43	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 tell	nsubj
44	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 tell	aux
45	really	really	ADV	_	46 tell	advmod
46	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 man	acl:relcl
47	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 tell	iobj
48	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	52 saying	obj
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 saying	mark
50	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 saying	nsubj
51	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 saying	aux
52	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 tell	ccomp
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 foreboding	cc
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 doom	det
55	doom	doom	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 foreboding	nsubj
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 foreboding	nsubj
57	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 foreboding	aux
58	foreboding	forebode	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	52 saying	conj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 like	punct
60	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	62 like	nsubj
61	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 like	aux
62	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 saying	advcl
63	to	to	PART	_	64 meet	mark
64	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 like	xcomp
65	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 meet	obj
66	:	:	PUNCT	_	69 give	punct
67	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	69 give	nsubj
68	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	69 give	aux
69	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 tell	conj
70	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 give	iobj
71	in	in	ADP	_	74 half	case
72	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	74 half	nmod:poss
73	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 half	compound
74	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	69 give	obl
75	of	of	ADP	_	77 possessions	case
76	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	77 possessions	nmod:poss
77	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	74 half	nmod
78	,	,	PUNCT	_	85 bequeath	punct
79	and	and	CCONJ	_	85 bequeath	cc
80	after	after	ADP	_	82 death	case
81	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	82 death	nmod:poss
82	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	85 bequeath	obl
83	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	85 bequeath	nsubj
84	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	85 bequeath	aux
85	bequeath	bequeath	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	69 give	conj
86	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	85 bequeath	obj
87	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	88 goods	amod
88	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	85 bequeath	obj
89	.	.	PUNCT	_	42 man	punct
90	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 cage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lunch	past · progressive	all three			a cage		together property	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sing speech: express	gerund	a Nightingale not said here			the table			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over table=Location
3	sing speech: express	gerund	a Nightingale not said here					woefully property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not bear	could	the merchant	Nightingale					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	say speech: assert	past	cock						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a in a quote	past		a man					tree rules
7	tell speech: assert in a quote	could	a man		cock				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
8	say speech: assert in a quote	present · progressive	Nightingale					what obj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
9	forebode in a quote	present · progressive	the doom					cock nsubj	vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot
10	like in a quote	should	cock						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
11	meet not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	cock not said here	cock					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
12	give in a quote	would	cock		cock	my life half of my possessions			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
13	bequeath in a quote	would	cock	many goods	cock		after my death		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal goods=Theme
14	possess in a quote		my						nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent
15	die in a quote		my						nom death «event intransitive»: 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 6, sentence 79

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 79