Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 34

As they were journeying on to their own kingdom the Tsar said, “Let me go, good man, for I am no simple prisoner, I am the Tsar himself.

Who acts: Tsar · What happens: journey on, say, let, go, be · To what, where: own kingdom, Tsar · 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 (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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 journeying	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 journeying	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 journeying	aux
4	journeying	journey	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	advcl
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 journeying	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 kingdom	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 kingdom	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kingdom	amod
9	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 journeying	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Tsar	det
11	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Let	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 Let	punct
15	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 Let	obj
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 Let	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 man	punct
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Let	vocative
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 prisoner	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	27 prisoner	case
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 prisoner	nsubj
24	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 prisoner	cop
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 prisoner	det
26	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 prisoner	amod
27	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Let	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Tsar	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 Tsar	nsubj
30	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 Tsar	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Tsar	det
32	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 Tsar	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	journey on	past · progressive	Tsar		Tsar's own kingdom		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to kingdom=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	the Tsar				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let in a quote	infinitive		the Tsar = tsar		good man vocative	tree rules
4	go in a quote	infinitive	the Tsar = tsar not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is in a quote	present	the Tsar = tsar			for no simple prisoner	tree rules
6	is a in a quote	present	the Tsar = tsar	the Tsar		prisoner nmod	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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 34

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 34