Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 106
And, as he went along, he thought: “Lord! here am I; I have served my Tsar for twenty-five years, have received my food and dress, and what have I lived for after all?
Who acts: end · What happens: go along, think, be, serve, receive, have · To what, where: Lord, end, Tsar, food · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thought | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 And | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 went | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | advcl |
| 6 | along | along | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Lord | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Lord | punct |
| 12 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | obl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 Lord | punct |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 Lord | advmod |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 I | cop |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 Lord | parataxis |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 served | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 served | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 served | aux |
| 20 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 thought | conj |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 Tsar | nmod:poss |
| 22 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 served | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 years | case |
| 24 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 five | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 twenty | punct |
| 26 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 years | nummod |
| 27 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 served | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 received | punct |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 received | aux |
| 30 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 served | conj |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 food | nmod:poss |
| 32 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 received | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 dress | cc |
| 34 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 food | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 have | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 have | cc |
| 37 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 38 have | obj |
| 38 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | conj |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 lived | nsubj |
| 40 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 have | ccomp |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 all | case |
| 42 | after | after | ADP | _ | 43 all | case |
| 43 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 lived | obl |
| 44 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go along | past | end | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | end | Lord | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | end | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | serve in a quote | present · perfect | end | my Tsar | year | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsar=Attribute | |||
| 5 | receive in a quote | present · perfect | end not said here | my food and dress | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have in a quote | present | end not said here | what obj | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | live in a quote | past | end | for all | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: 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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