Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 5
Tsar Afrón was very angry with Iván Tsarévich, and asked him who he was, who was his father, and what was his name.
Who acts: Tsar, Iván, father · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: Iván, father, name · 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, Iván, father), 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 | 5 angry | nsubj |
| 2 | Afrón | Afrón | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tsar | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 Iván | case |
| 7 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 angry | obl |
| 8 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Iván | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | iobj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 who | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 who | cop |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 father | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 father | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 father | cop |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 angry | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 name | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 name | cc |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 name | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 name | cop |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 name | nmod:poss |
| 26 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 father | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Tsar | with Iván; angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Tsar not said here | Iván | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Iván | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | Iván's father and Iván's name | who nsubj; Iván nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | Iván's father and Iván's name | Iván's name | Iván nmod:poss | 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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