Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 59
Then Dmítri Tsarévich and Vasíli Tsarévich began to cast lots who should have the fair Princess Eléna and who should have the golden-maned horse, and the lot fell that the fair Princess Eléna should belong to Vasíli and the horse to Dmítri.
Who acts: Dmítri, lots, lot, fair Princess Eléna · What happens: begin, cast, have, fall, belong · To what, where: lots, fair Princess Eléna, golden maned horse, Vasíli
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 (Dmítri, lots, lot, fair Princess Eléna), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 began | advmod |
| 2 | Dmítri | Dmítri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 began | nsubj |
| 3 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Dmítri | flat |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Vasíli | cc |
| 5 | Vasíli | Vasíli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Dmítri | conj |
| 6 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Vasíli | flat |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 cast | mark |
| 9 | cast | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 began | xcomp |
| 10 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cast | obj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 have | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 lots | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Eléna | det |
| 15 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Eléna | amod |
| 16 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Eléna | compound |
| 17 | Eléna | Eléna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 have | cc |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 have | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 have | aux |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 have | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 horse | det |
| 23 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 horse | amod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 golden | punct |
| 25 | maned | maned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 horse | amod |
| 26 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 fell | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 fell | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 lot | det |
| 30 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fell | nsubj |
| 31 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 began | conj |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 belong | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Eléna | det |
| 34 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Eléna | amod |
| 35 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Eléna | compound |
| 36 | Eléna | Eléna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 belong | nsubj |
| 37 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 belong | aux |
| 38 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 fell | ccomp |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 Vasíli | case |
| 40 | Vasíli | Vasíli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 belong | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 horse | cc |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 horse | det |
| 43 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Vasíli | conj |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 Dmítri | case |
| 45 | Dmítri | Dmítri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 horse | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Dmítri and Vasíli | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | cast | to-infinitive | Dmítri and Vasíli not said here | lots | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Product | ||||
| 3 | have | should | lots | the fair Princess Eléna | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eléna=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have | should | the golden maned horse | who nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | the lot | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | belong | should | the fair Princess Eléna | Vasíli and the horse to Dmítri | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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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