Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 72
Now listen, and return to your kingdom as fast as you can: your brother Vasíli is to-day going to marry your bride, Princess Eléna the Fair.
Who acts: you, brother, day · What happens: listen, return, be, go, marry · To what, where: bride
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 (you, brother, day), 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 | 2 listen | advmod |
| 2 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 return | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 return | cc |
| 5 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 listen | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 kingdom | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 8 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 return | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 fast | advmod |
| 10 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 return | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 can | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 can | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 fast | advcl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 day | punct |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 day | nsubj |
| 17 | Vasíli | Vasíli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 brother | appos |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 day | cop |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 day | case |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 to | punct |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 listen | obl |
| 22 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 day | acl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 marry | mark |
| 24 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 going | xcomp |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 bride | nmod:poss |
| 26 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 marry | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Eléna | punct |
| 28 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Eléna | compound |
| 29 | Eléna | Eléna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 day | appos |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Fair | det |
| 31 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Eléna | appos |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | imperative | you not said here | now | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | return | infinitive | you not said here | to your kingdom result; fast property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to kingdom=Result | ||||
| 3 | is | present | your brother | to day | Princess Eléna appos | tree rules | |||
| 4 | go | gerund | day not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | marry | to-infinitive | day not said here | your bride | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=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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