Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 101

The same evening that priest came to him and said, "Do thy will, O Tsar, and strike off my head, for I cannot blot out one word of Holy Scripture."--And the Tsar said to him, "Glory be to God, for now I know that there is at least one priest in my tsardom who stands firm for God's Word.

Who acts: same evening, Tsar, Glory, one priest, tsardom · What happens: come, say, do, strike off, not blot out, be · To what, where: man, head, one word, Holy Scripture · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (same evening, Tsar, Glory, one priest), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 evening	amod
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 priest	det
5	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 evening	nmod:unmarked
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Do	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Do	punct
13	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
14	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	15 will	nmod:poss
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 Do	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Tsar	punct
17	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	18 Tsar	case
18	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Do	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 strike	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 strike	cc
21	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	conj
22	off	off	ADP	_	21 strike	compound:prt
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 strike	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 blot	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 blot	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 blot	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 blot	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 blot	advmod
30	blot	blot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 strike	parataxis
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 blot	compound:prt
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 word	nummod
33	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 blot	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 Scripture	case
35	Holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 Scripture	amod
36	Scripture	Scripture	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 word	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 blot	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 strike	punct
39	--	--	PUNCT	_	43 said	punct
40	And	and	CCONJ	_	43 said	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Tsar	det
42	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 said	nsubj
43	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	parataxis
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 him	case
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 said	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 God	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 God	punct
48	Glory	glory	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 God	nsubj
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 God	cop
50	to	to	ADP	_	51 God	case
51	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 said	ccomp
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 know	punct
53	for	for	ADP	_	54 now	case
54	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	56 know	obl
55	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 know	nsubj
56	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 said	conj
57	that	that	SCONJ	_	59 is	mark
58	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	59 is	expl
59	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 know	ccomp
60	at	at	ADP	_	61 least	case
61	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	62 one	nmod
62	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	63 priest	nummod
63	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 is	nsubj
64	in	in	ADP	_	66 tsardom	case
65	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	66 tsardom	nmod:poss
66	tsardom	tsardom	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 priest	nmod
67	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	68 stands	nsubj
68	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	66 tsardom	acl:relcl
69	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 stands	xcomp
70	for	for	ADP	_	73 Word	case
71	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	73 Word	nmod:poss
72	's	's	PART	_	71 God	case
73	Word	Word	PROPN	Number=Sing	68 stands	obl
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the same evening that priest		man			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the same evening that priest not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do in a quote	infinitive					of Tsar	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	strike off in a quote	infinitive	the same evening that priest not said here	my head				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
5	not blot out in a quote	can	the same evening that priest = evening	one word of Holy Scripture				vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Destination
6	say speech: assert	past	the Tsar		man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
7	is in a quote	infinitive	Glory				to God	tree rules
8	know in a quote	present	the Tsar = tsar					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	be in a quote	present	one priest in my tsardom			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	stand in a quote	present	my tsardom				for God's Word; firm property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for word=Attribute
11	word in a quote			Holy Scripture				nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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