Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 102
But the old Tsarítsa died and the Tsar took to him a second wife, who was a witch.
Who acts: old Tsarítsa, Tsar, second wife · What happens: die, take, be · To what, where: second wife, Tsarítsa, witch
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, 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 (old Tsarítsa, Tsar, second wife), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 died | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Tsarítsa | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Tsarítsa | amod |
| 4 | Tsarítsa | Tsarítsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 died | nsubj |
| 5 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Tsar | det |
| 8 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 died | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wife | det |
| 13 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 wife | amod |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 witch | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 witch | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 witch | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 witch | det |
| 19 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wife | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | the old Tsarítsa | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | take | past | the Tsar | a second wife and a witch | Tsarítsa | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wife=Theme to he=Destination | |||
| 3 | is a | past | a second wife and a witch | a witch | tree rules |
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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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