Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 80
Iván Tsarévich received his father’s blessing, took his horse, and went on his journey, journeying forth, not knowing whither he was going.
Who acts: Iván, IVÁN, father · What happens: receive, take, go, journey, not know, bless · To what, where: blessing, horse, journey · 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 (Iván, 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 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 received | nsubj |
| 2 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Iván | flat |
| 3 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 father | case |
| 7 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 received | parataxis |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 horse | nmod:poss |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 journey | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 journey | nmod:poss |
| 17 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 journeying | punct |
| 19 | journeying | journey | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 went | advcl |
| 20 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 19 journeying | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 knowing | punct |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 knowing | advmod |
| 23 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 journeying | advcl |
| 24 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 going | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 going | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 going | aux |
| 27 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 knowing | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | Iván | IVÁN's father's blessing | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | IVÁN's horse | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination | |||||
| 3 | go | past | IVÁN's journey | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on journey=Location | |||||
| 4 | journey | gerund | forth property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not know | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 6 | go | past · progressive | IVÁN = iván | whither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | bless | IVÁN's father | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | journey | IVÁN = iván | nom journey «act 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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