Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 137

Whatever Ivan Golik said was performed throughout the realm, while the Tsar had only to sit on his throne and do nothing.

Who acts: Ivan, Tsar · What happens: say, perform, sit, do · To what, where: Whatever, throne, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan, Tsar), 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	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 performed	nsubj:pass
2	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
3	Golik	Golik	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Ivan	flat
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Whatever	acl:relcl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 performed	aux:pass
6	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	9 realm	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 realm	det
9	realm	realm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 performed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sit	punct
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 sit	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Tsar	det
13	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 sit	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sit	aux
15	only	only	ADV	_	17 sit	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 sit	mark
17	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 performed	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 throne	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 throne	nmod:poss
20	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sit	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 do	cc
22	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sit	conj
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 do	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 performed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Ivan				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	perform	past · passive		Whatever		throughout the realm	vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	sit	past	the Tsar		Ivan's throne		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location
4	do	present	the Tsar not said here	nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

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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