Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 12
I am the Tsar, and it is thy duty to obey me."--"In all things will I obey thee, O Tsar, save only in sacred things.
Who acts: I, grease · What happens: be, obey, save · To what, where: Tsar, duty, me, thee, things, sacred things
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 (I, grease), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 Tsar | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Tsar | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Tsar | det |
| 4 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 duty | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 duty | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 duty | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 duty | cop |
| 9 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 duty | nmod:poss |
| 10 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Tsar | appos |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 obey | mark |
| 12 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 duty | acl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 obey | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Tsar | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Tsar | punct |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 obey | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 obey | punct |
| 18 | In | in | ADP | _ | 20 things | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 things | det |
| 20 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 obey | obl |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 obey | aux |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 obey | nsubj |
| 23 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 Tsar | parataxis |
| 24 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 obey | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Tsar | punct |
| 26 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 27 Tsar | case |
| 27 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 obey | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 save | punct |
| 29 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 obey | conj |
| 30 | only | only | ADV | _ | 33 things | advmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 things | case |
| 32 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 things | amod |
| 33 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 save | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Tsar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | the Tsar | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | grease | thy duty | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | obey | to-infinitive | I not said here | me | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | obey | future | I | thee | all things | of Tsar | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | ||
| 5 | save | infinitive | I not said here | sacred things | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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: «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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