Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 52
The Tsar heard, ran to meet her, seized the musician by the hand, led her into the palace and said to his Court, “This is the _guslyár_ who rescued me from my confinement.”
Who acts: Tsar, This, guslyár, my · What happens: hear, run, meet, seize, lead, say · To what, where: Tsarítsa, musician, palace, Court, guslyár, me · 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, This, guslyár, my), 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 | 2 Tsar | det |
| 2 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 meet | mark |
| 7 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ran | advcl |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 meet | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seized | punct |
| 10 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 musician | det |
| 12 | musician | musician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seized | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 hand | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hand | det |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seized | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 led | punct |
| 17 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 led | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 palace | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 palace | det |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 led | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 led | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Court | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 Court | nmod:poss |
| 26 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 guslyár | punct |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 guslyár | punct |
| 29 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 guslyár | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 guslyár | cop |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 guslyár | det |
| 32 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 guslyár | punct |
| 33 | guslyár | guslyár | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | ccomp |
| 34 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 guslyár | punct |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 rescued | nsubj |
| 36 | rescued | rescue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 guslyár | acl:relcl |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 rescued | obj |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 confinement | case |
| 39 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 confinement | nmod:poss |
| 40 | confinement | confinement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 rescued | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Tsar | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | run | past | the Tsar not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | the Tsar not said here | Tsarítsa | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | seize | past | the Tsar not said here | the musician | by the hand | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent musician=Theme | |||
| 5 | lead | past | Tsarítsa | the palace | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into palace=Destination | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | God's Court | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to court=Recipient | |||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | This | the guslyár | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | rescue in a quote | past | the guslyár | me | my confinement | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme from confinement=Source | |||
| 9 | confine in a quote | my | nom confinement «state transitive»: poss=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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