Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 144
“Our Tsar built himself this palace, but cannot inhabit it; and, for seven years, it has been standing empty.
Who acts: Tsar, palace · What happens: build, not inhabit, stand · To what, where: master, palace
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 (Tsar, palace), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 built | punct |
| 2 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Tsar | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 built | nsubj |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 built | obj |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 built | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 inhabit | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 inhabit | cc |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 inhabit | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 inhabit | advmod |
| 12 | inhabit | inhabit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 built | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 inhabit | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 standing | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 standing | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 and | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 years | case |
| 18 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 years | nummod |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 standing | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 years | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 standing | nsubj |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 standing | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 standing | aux |
| 24 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 built | advcl |
| 25 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 standing | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build in a quote | past | Our Tsar | master | this palace obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary palace=Product | |||
| 2 | not inhabit in a quote | can | Our Tsar not said here | palace | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stand in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | palace | year | empty property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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