Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 138
So he made a feast ready, and he summoned all the kings and _korolévichi_, all the _boyárs_, and the merchants and the simple folk, to it, and he asked them, “Can any of you guess this riddle?
Who acts: king, any · What happens: make, summon, ask, guess · To what, where: feast, korolévichi, kings, folks, riddle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, any), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 feast | det |
| 5 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 made | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 summoned | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 summoned | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 summoned | nsubj |
| 10 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 kings | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kings | det |
| 13 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 summoned | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 korolévichi | cc |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 korolévichi | punct |
| 16 | korolévichi | korolévichi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kings | conj |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 summoned | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 boyárs | punct |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 boyárs | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 boyárs | det |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 boyárs | punct |
| 22 | boyárs | boyár | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obl |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 boyárs | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 merchants | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 merchants | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 merchants | det |
| 27 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 folk | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 folk | det |
| 30 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 folk | amod |
| 31 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 merchants | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 it | punct |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 it | case |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 asked | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 asked | cc |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 asked | nsubj |
| 38 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 asked | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 guess | punct |
| 41 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 guess | punct |
| 42 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 guess | aux |
| 43 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 46 guess | nsubj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 you | case |
| 45 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 any | nmod |
| 46 | guess | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 asked | parataxis |
| 47 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 48 riddle | det |
| 48 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 guess | obj |
| 49 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | king | a feast | korolévichi | all boyárs obl; the merchants and the simple folk obl; ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Product | ||
| 2 | summon | past | king | all kings and korolévichi | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | king | folks = folk | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | guess in a quote | can | any of you | this riddle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riddle=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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