Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 32
And then he asked leave of Tsar Afrón to go and walk in the open field, that he might drive out the ravening sorrow from his heart.
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: ask, go, walk, drive out · To what, where: leave, open field, ravening sorrow, heart · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tsar), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 asked | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 asked | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Tsar | case |
| 7 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 leave | nmod |
| 8 | Afrón | Afrón | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Tsar | flat |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 walk | cc |
| 12 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 field | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 field | det |
| 15 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 field | amod |
| 16 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walk | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 drive | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 drive | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 drive | nsubj |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 drive | aux |
| 21 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 walk | advcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 drive | compound:prt |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sorrow | det |
| 24 | ravening | ravening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sorrow | compound |
| 25 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drive | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 heart | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 heart | nmod:poss |
| 28 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drive | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Tsar | leave of Tsar | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent leave=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | walk | infinitive | the open field | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | drive out | might | Tsar | the ravening sorrow | Tsar's heart | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from heart=Trajectory |
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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