Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 93

Again Vásya said, “The Nightingale sings that there are twelve ships coming to meet us, all pirate ships, and they will take us prisoner.”

Who acts: Vásya, Nightingale, twelve ships, ships · What happens: say, sing, be, come, meet, take · To what, where: us · 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 (Vásya, Nightingale, twelve ships, ships), 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	Again	again	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
2	Vásya	Vásya	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sings	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 sings	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Nightingale	det
7	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sings	nsubj
8	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 are	mark
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 are	expl
11	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sings	ccomp
12	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 ships	nummod
13	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 are	nsubj
14	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 ships	acl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 meet	mark
16	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 coming	xcomp
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 meet	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ships	punct
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 ships	det
20	pirate	pirate	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ships	compound
21	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ships	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 take	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 take	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 take	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 take	aux
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 take	obj
28	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 take	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 take	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Vásya			again		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sing speech: express in a quote	present	the Nightingale					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	does in a quote	present	twelve ships and all pirate ships		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come in a quote	gerund	twelve ships and all pirate ships not said here					tree rules
5	meet in a quote	to-infinitive	twelve ships and all pirate ships not said here	us				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Co-Agent
6	take in a quote	future	ships = ship	us			prisoner obj	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument we=Theme prisoner=Destination

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 93

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 93