Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 7
This King saw the Tsar, and he bade him be seized and lodged in the dungeon.
Who acts: King · What happens: see, bade, seize, lodge · To what, where: Tsar, Christ, dungeon
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 (King), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Tsar | det |
| 5 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bade | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bade | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bade | nsubj |
| 9 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bade | obj |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seized | aux:pass |
| 12 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 bade | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lodged | cc |
| 14 | lodged | lodge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 seized | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 dungeon | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dungeon | det |
| 17 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lodged | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | this King | the Tsar | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tsar=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bade | past | King | Christ | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | seize | infinitive · passive | King not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 4 | lodge | participle | King not said here | the dungeon | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dungeon=Location |
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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