Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 32
The henchmen sallied out of the Tsar’s courtyard, and asked them: “What sort of people are you?
Who acts: henchmen, sort · What happens: sally, ask, be, sort · To what, where: courtyard, henchmen, people · 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 (henchmen, sort), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 henchmen | det |
| 2 | henchmen | henchman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sallied | nsubj |
| 3 | sallied | sally | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 courtyard | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 courtyard | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Tsar | det |
| 7 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 courtyard | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Tsar | case |
| 9 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sallied | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sallied | parataxis |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | obj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 sort | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 sort | punct |
| 16 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 17 sort | det |
| 17 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 you | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 people | case |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sort | nmod |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 you | cop |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 sallied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sally | past | the henchmen | the Tsar's courtyard | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | henchmen = henchman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | what sort of people | henchmen = henchman | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sort in a quote | people | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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