Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 30
Iván Tsarévich sat on the horse, and he went behind the town and he placed Eléna the Fair on it, and they went away, taking their road to the kingdom of Tsar Dolmát.
Who acts: Iván, heart · What happens: sit, go, place, go away, take · To what, where: town, Eléna, road, kingdom
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván, heart), 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 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Iván | flat |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 horse | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 13 town | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 town | det |
| 13 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 placed | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 placed | nsubj |
| 16 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 17 | Eléna | Eléna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 placed | obj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Fair | det |
| 19 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 placed | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 placed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 went | cc |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 went | nsubj |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 went | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 taking | punct |
| 28 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 went | advcl |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 road | nmod:poss |
| 30 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 taking | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 kingdom | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 kingdom | det |
| 33 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 taking | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Tsar | case |
| 35 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 kingdom | nmod |
| 36 | Dolmát | Dolmát | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Tsar | flat |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Iván | on the horse | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on horse=Location | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Iván | the town | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind town=Location | ||||
| 3 | place | past | Iván | Eléna | on horse; the Fair obj | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent eléna=Theme fair=Destination | |||
| 4 | go away | past | heart | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | take | gerund | heart not said here | heart's road | the kingdom of Tsar | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent road=Theme to kingdom=Destination |
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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