Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 70
Then, as is the wont of princes, he called together his senators and his servants, and they counselled their young prince to marry; so out he went to seek a bride, and a great retinue followed after him.
Who acts: Prince, senators, great retinue · What happens: be, call together, counsel, marry, go, seek · To what, where: wont, senators, young prince, bride
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, senators, great retinue), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg29672:1830): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 called | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 wont | mark |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wont | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wont | det |
| 6 | wont | wont | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | advcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 princes | case |
| 8 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wont | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wont | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 called | nsubj |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 called | advmod |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 senators | nmod:poss |
| 14 | senators | senator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 called | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 servants | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 servants | nmod:poss |
| 17 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 senators | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 counselled | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 counselled | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 counselled | nsubj |
| 21 | counselled | counsel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 called | conj |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 prince | nmod:poss |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 prince | amod |
| 24 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 counselled | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 marry | mark |
| 26 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 counselled | xcomp |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 went | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 went | advmod |
| 29 | out | out | ADV | _ | 31 went | advmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 went | nsubj |
| 31 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 called | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 seek | mark |
| 33 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 went | xcomp |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 bride | det |
| 35 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 seek | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 followed | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 followed | cc |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 retinue | det |
| 39 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 retinue | amod |
| 40 | retinue | retinue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 followed | nsubj |
| 41 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 went | conj |
| 42 | after | after | ADP | _ | 43 him | case |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 followed | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Prince not said here | the wont | of princes | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call together speech: assert | past | Prince | Prince's senators and Prince's servants | then | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent senator=Recipient | ||
| 3 | counsel speech: other | past | senators = senator | senators's young prince | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | marry | to-infinitive | senators = senator not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | go | past | Prince | out property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | seek | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | a bride | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme | ||||
| 7 | follow | past | a great retinue | after Prince | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after he=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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