Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 70
In the morning the Tsar called his second son and questioned him, and he answered: “Gracious lord, my father, this night the Bird of Light did not come.”
Who acts: Tsar, LIGHT, Bird · What happens: call, question, answer, not come · To what, where: second son, LIGHT, Gracious lord · 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, Bird), 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 | 6 called | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Tsar | det |
| 5 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 called | nsubj |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 son | amod |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 called | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 questioned | cc |
| 11 | questioned | question | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 called | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 questioned | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 answered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 answered | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 answered | nsubj |
| 16 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 called | parataxis |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 lord | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 lord | punct |
| 19 | Gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lord | amod |
| 20 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 answered | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 father | punct |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 father | nmod:poss |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lord | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 night | punct |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 night | det |
| 26 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lord | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Bird | det |
| 28 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 come | nsubj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Light | case |
| 30 | Light | Light | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Bird | nmod |
| 31 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 come | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 come | advmod |
| 33 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 lord | acl:relcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past | the Tsar | LIGHT's second son | morning | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient | |||
| 2 | question speech: other | past | the Tsar not said here | LIGHT | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | LIGHT | Gracious lord and my father and this night | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not come in a quote | past · do-support | the Bird of Light | Gracious lord and my father and this night not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lord=Theme |
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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