Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 86
Iván Tsarévich read this inscription, and he went to the right, bethinking himself, if his horse were to be slain, anyhow he would remain alive.
Who acts: Iván, IVÁN, horse · What happens: read, go, bethink, be, remain · To what, where: inscription, right, IVÁN
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, horse), 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 read | nsubj |
| 2 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Iván | flat |
| 3 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 inscription | det |
| 5 | inscription | inscription | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 read | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 read | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 right | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 right | det |
| 12 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bethinking | punct |
| 14 | bethinking | bethink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 went | advcl |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 bethinking | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 slain | punct |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 slain | mark |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 horse | nmod:poss |
| 19 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 slain | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 slain | cop |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 slain | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 slain | cop |
| 23 | slain | slain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 went | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 remain | punct |
| 25 | anyhow | anyhow | SCONJ | _ | 28 remain | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 remain | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 remain | aux |
| 28 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 slain | conj |
| 29 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 remain | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past | Iván | this inscription | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inscription=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go | past | IVÁN = iván | the right | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to right=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | bethink | gerund | IVÁN = iván not said here | IVÁN = iván | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | word's horse | slain property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | remain | would | horse | alive property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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