Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 47
Then the Tsar was very angry and commanded, “My ministers, do ye judge my unfaithful wife according to justice and to truth.
Who acts: Tsar, ye · What happens: be, command, judge, accord · To what, where: ministers, unfaithful wife · 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, ye), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 angry | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 angry | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 angry | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 angry | advmod |
| 6 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 commanded | cc |
| 8 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 angry | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ministers | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 ministers | punct |
| 11 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ministers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 commanded | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 judge | punct |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 judge | aux |
| 15 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 judge | nsubj |
| 16 | judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 commanded | conj |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | unfaithful | unfaithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 wife | amod |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 judge | obj |
| 20 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 justice | case |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 according | fixed |
| 22 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wife | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 truth | cc |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 truth | case |
| 25 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wife | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Tsar | then | angry property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | command | past | the Tsar not said here | My ministers | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent minister=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | judge in a quote | infinitive · do-support | ye | my unfaithful wife and truth | accord justice | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent wife=Value | |||
| 4 | accord in a quote | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
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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