Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 88
Doughty of might, Iván Tsarévich, hast thou read how it is written on the column that thy horse shall be slain?
Who acts: Iván · What happens: have, read, write, slay · To what, where: thou, WOLF, column, horse
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), 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 | Doughty | doughty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Iván | nmod:desc |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 might | case |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 Doughty | acl:relcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Iván | punct |
| 5 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 read | nsubj |
| 6 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Iván | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hast | punct |
| 8 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Iván | conj |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 hast | obj |
| 10 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 written | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 written | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 written | aux:pass |
| 14 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 read | advcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 column | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 column | det |
| 17 | column | column | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 written | obl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 slain | obj |
| 19 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 horse | nmod:poss |
| 20 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 slain | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 slain | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 slain | aux:pass |
| 23 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 column | acl:relcl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Iván Doughty not said here | thou | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient | ||||
| 2 | read | past | Iván Doughty | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | write | present · passive | WOLF | the column | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on column=Destination | ||||
| 4 | slay | shall · passive | thy horse | the column obj | tree rules |
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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