Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 38

Tsar Dolmát for such a joy bade a feast be prepared, and they sat at the oaken tables by the chequered table-cloths, and they ate, drank and made merry for two days.

Who acts: Tsar, cheeks · What happens: be, sit, chequer, eat, drink, make · To what, where: oaken tables

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, cheeks), 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	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 prepared	nsubj
2	Dolmát	Dolmát	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tsar	flat
3	for	for	ADP	_	7 bade	case
4	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	7 bade	det:predet
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bade	det
6	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bade	compound
7	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tsar	nmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 feast	det
9	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 prepared	nsubj
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 prepared	cop
11	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sat	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sat	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sat	nsubj
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 prepared	parataxis
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 tables	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tables	det
18	oaken	oaken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tables	amod
19	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sat	obl
20	by	by	ADP	_	25 cloths	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cloths	det
22	chequered	chequer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 cloths	amod
23	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cloths	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 table	punct
25	cloths	cloth	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sat	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ate	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 ate	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 ate	nsubj
29	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sat	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 drank	punct
31	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 ate	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 made	cc
33	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 drank	conj
34	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 made	xcomp
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 days	case
36	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 days	nummod
37	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 made	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive	Tsar for such joy bade			a feast nsubj; prepared property	tree rules
2	sit	past	cheeks = cheek	the oaken tables		by the chequered table cloths	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location
3	chequer	participle					tree rules
4	eat	past	cheeks = cheek				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	drink	past	cheeks = cheek not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	make	past	cheeks = cheek not said here		day	merry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 38

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Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 38