Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 47
Now it happened at this time that the brothers of Iván Tsarévich, Dmítri and Vasíli, were riding out in different states and could not find the Bird of Light.
Who acts: it, brothers · What happens: happen, ride out, not find · To what, where: different states, Bird
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 (it, brothers), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 happened | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 riding | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 brothers | det |
| 9 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 riding | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Tsarévich | case |
| 11 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Tsarévich | compound |
| 12 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 brothers | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Dmítri | punct |
| 14 | Dmítri | Dmítri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Tsarévich | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Vasíli | cc |
| 16 | Vasíli | Vasíli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Tsarévich | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brothers | punct |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 riding | aux |
| 19 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 happened | advcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 riding | compound:prt |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 states | case |
| 22 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 states | amod |
| 23 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 riding | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 find | cc |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 find | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 find | advmod |
| 27 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 riding | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Bird | det |
| 29 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 find | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Light | case |
| 31 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Bird | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now; time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ride out | past · progressive | the brothers of Iván Tsarévich and Dmítri and Vasíli | different states | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not find | could | the brothers of Iván Tsarévich and Dmítri and Vasíli not said here | the Bird of Light | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Topic |
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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