Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 120
“Oh, grandfather, little dove, do not slay us; we will give you all the gold you desire, only pity us and let us free.”
Who acts: grandfather, we, you · What happens: not slay, give, desire, pity, let · To what, where: us, gold, you
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandfather, we, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 grandfather | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 grandfather | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slay | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dove | punct |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dove | amod |
| 7 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grandfather | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grandfather | punct |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 slay | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 slay | advmod |
| 11 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 slay | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 give | punct |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 give | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 give | aux |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 slay | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 gold | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 gold | det |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 desire | nsubj |
| 22 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 gold | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 pity | punct |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 pity | advmod |
| 25 | pity | pity | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 give | conj |
| 26 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 pity | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 let | cc |
| 28 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 give | conj |
| 29 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 let | obj |
| 30 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 let | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 slay | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 slay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not slay in a quote | infinitive · do-support | grandfather and little dove | us | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | future | we | all gold | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient gold=Theme | |||
| 3 | desire in a quote | present | you | all gold not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gold=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pity in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | us | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | let in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | us | free property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
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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