Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 111
But the son was indignant, and asked: “Father, bless me, and I will go and seek my own fate.”
Who acts: son, I, my · What happens: be, ask, bless, go, seek, fate · To what, where: me, own fate · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, I, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 indignant | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 son | det |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 indignant | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 indignant | cop |
| 5 | indignant | indignant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 asked | cc |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 indignant | parataxis |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 bless | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bless | punct |
| 11 | Father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bless | vocative |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Father | punct |
| 13 | bless | bless | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 bless | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 go | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 go | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | aux |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 bless | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 seek | cc |
| 21 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 bless | conj |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 fate | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fate | amod |
| 24 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seek | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 indignant | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 indignant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the son | indignant property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | bless in a quote | infinitive | me | Father vocative | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | future | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | seek in a quote | infinitive | my own fate | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=Theme | |||||
| 6 | fate in a quote | my | nom fate «event 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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