Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 66
In the morning Tsar Výslav Andrónovich called his son Dmítri to him, and he asked him: “Well, my beloved son, did you see the Bird of Light, or did you not?”
Who acts: Tsar, LIGHT, beloved son · What happens: call, ask, see, not do · To what, where: son, LIGHT, reward, Bird · 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, LIGHT, beloved son), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | obl |
| 4 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 called | nsubj |
| 5 | Výslav | Výslav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Tsar | flat |
| 6 | Andrónovich | Andrónovich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Tsar | flat |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | obj |
| 10 | Dmítri | Dmítri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 son | appos |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 called | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asked | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 called | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | iobj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 see | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 see | punct |
| 20 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 28 see | discourse |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Well | punct |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 son | amod |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 see | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 son | punct |
| 26 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 see | aux |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 see | nsubj |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 asked | ccomp |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Bird | det |
| 30 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 see | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Light | case |
| 32 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Bird | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 did | punct |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 did | cc |
| 35 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 see | advcl |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 did | obj |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 did | advmod |
| 38 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 28 see | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Tsar | LIGHT's son | LIGHT | morning | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Topic to he=Recipient | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | LIGHT | reward | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | past · do-support | my beloved son | the Bird of Light | you nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | not do in a quote | past | my beloved son not said here | reward | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |
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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