Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 106
Iván Tsarévich answered him: “I am the son of Tsar Výslav Andrónovich, and they call me Iván Tsarévich.
Who acts: Iván, sons · What happens: answer, be, call · To what, where: word, son, Iván · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván, sons), 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 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Iván | flat |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 answered | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 son | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 son | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 son | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 son | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 son | det |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Výslav | case |
| 12 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Výslav | compound |
| 13 | Výslav | Výslav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 son | nmod |
| 14 | Andrónovich | Andrónovich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Výslav | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 call | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 call | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 call | nsubj |
| 18 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | parataxis |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 call | obj |
| 20 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 call | xcomp |
| 21 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Iván | flat |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Iván | word | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Iván | the son | of Tsar Výslav | tree rules | |||
| 3 | call in a quote | present | sons = son | Iván | Iván xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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