Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 79
Tsar Výslav tried to keep Iván back, but he could not, and he let him go at his unrelaxing prayer.
Who acts: Tsar, IVÁN, father · What happens: try, keep back, let, go, pray · To what, where: Iván, father, unrelaxing prayer
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, IVÁN, father), 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 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | Výslav | Výslav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tsar | flat |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 keep | mark |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 keep | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 could | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 could | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 could | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | conj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 could | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 let | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 let | nsubj |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 let | obj |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | xcomp |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 prayer | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 prayer | nmod:poss |
| 21 | unrelaxing | unrelaxing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 prayer | amod |
| 22 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Tsar | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | keep back not said to happen | to-infinitive | Tsar not said here | Iván | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iván=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | IVÁN = iván | father | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | father not said here | IVÁN's unrelaxing prayer | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at prayer=Location | ||||
| 5 | pray | IVÁN = iván | nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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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