Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 70
Then the grey Wolf sprinkled Iván Tsarévich with the water of Death, and his body clove together; and he sprinkled him then with the water of Life, and Iván Tsarévich stood up alive and said: “Oh, what a long sleep I have had!”
Who acts: grey Wolf, death, Iván · What happens: sprinkle, stand up, say, have · To what, where: Iván, long sleep · 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 (grey Wolf, death, Iván), 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 | 5 sprinkled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Wolf | det |
| 3 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Wolf | amod |
| 4 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sprinkled | nsubj |
| 5 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sprinkled | obj |
| 7 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Iván | flat |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sprinkled | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Death | case |
| 12 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 water | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 clove | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 clove | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 clove | nmod:poss |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 clove | compound |
| 17 | clove | clove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sprinkled | conj |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 17 clove | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 sprinkled | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sprinkled | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sprinkled | nsubj |
| 22 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sprinkled | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sprinkled | obj |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 sprinkled | advmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 water | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 water | det |
| 27 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sprinkled | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Life | case |
| 29 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 water | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 stood | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 stood | cc |
| 32 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 stood | nsubj |
| 33 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Iván | flat |
| 34 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sprinkled | conj |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 stood | compound:prt |
| 36 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 stood | xcomp |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 said | cc |
| 38 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 stood | conj |
| 39 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 43 what | punct |
| 40 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 what | punct |
| 41 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 43 what | discourse |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Oh | punct |
| 43 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 38 said | ccomp |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 sleep | det |
| 45 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 sleep | amod |
| 46 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 had | obj |
| 47 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 had | nsubj |
| 48 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 had | aux |
| 49 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 43 what | acl:relcl |
| 50 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 49 had | punct |
| 51 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sprinkle | past | the grey Wolf | Iván | then | with the water of Death; death's body clove conj | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent iván=Destination with water=Theme | ||
| 2 | sprinkle | past | death | Iván | then | with the water of Life | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with water=Theme | ||
| 3 | stand up | past | Iván | alive property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: express | past | Iván not said here | what ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present · perfect | Iván | a long sleep | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Patient |
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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