Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 33
The _guslyár_ looked at the prisoners, selected the Tsar, and they went out to roam together.
Who acts: guslyár, Tsar · What happens: look, select, go out, roam · To what, where: guslyár, Tsar
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 (guslyár, Tsar), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 guslyár | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 guslyár | punct |
| 3 | guslyár | guslyár | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 selected | nsubj |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 guslyár | acl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 prisoners | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prisoners | det |
| 8 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 looked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 guslyár | punct |
| 10 | selected | select | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Tsar | det |
| 12 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 selected | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 selected | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 roam | mark |
| 19 | roam | roam | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 went | xcomp |
| 20 | together | together | ADV | _ | 19 roam | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 selected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | participle | the guslyár not said here | at the prisoners | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at prisoner=Theme | ||||
| 2 | select | past | the guslyár | the Tsar | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsar=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go out | past | Tsar | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | roam | to-infinitive | Tsar not said here | together property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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