Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 122
When Saktideva, in the fifth book of the "Kathasaritsagara," comes after long travel to the Golden City, and is welcomed as her destined husband by its princess, she warns him not to ascend the central terrace of her palace.
Who acts: Saktideva · What happens: come, welcome, destine, warn, not ascend · To what, where: husband, central terrace
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (Saktideva), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 comes | mark |
| 2 | Saktideva | Saktideva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 book | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 book | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 book | det |
| 6 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 book | amod |
| 7 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Saktideva | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Kathasaritsagara | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Kathasaritsagara | det |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Kathasaritsagara | punct |
| 11 | Kathasaritsagara | Kathasaritsagara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 book | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Kathasaritsagara | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Kathasaritsagara | punct |
| 14 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 warns | advcl |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 travel | case |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 travel | amod |
| 17 | travel | travel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 comes | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 City | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 City | det |
| 20 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 City | amod |
| 21 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 travel | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 welcomed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 welcomed | cc |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 welcomed | aux:pass |
| 25 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 comes | conj |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 husband | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 husband | nmod:poss |
| 28 | destined | destine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 husband | amod |
| 29 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 welcomed | obl |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 princess | case |
| 31 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 princess | nmod:poss |
| 32 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 husband | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 warns | punct |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 warns | nsubj |
| 35 | warns | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 ascend | advcl |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 warns | obj |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 ascend | advmod |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 ascend | mark |
| 39 | ascend | ascend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 terrace | det |
| 41 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 terrace | amod |
| 42 | terrace | terrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 ascend | obj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 palace | case |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 palace | nmod:poss |
| 45 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 terrace | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 ascend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Saktideva | after long travel to the Golden City | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | welcome | present · passive | Saktideva not said here | as Saktideva's destined husband by City's princess | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as husband=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | destine | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | warn speech: warn | present | Saktideva | husband | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | not ascend | to-infinitive | the central terrace of Saktideva's palace | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme terrace=Trajectory |
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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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