Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 141
Only one poor nobleman cried out, “Your kingly Majesty, I will find out!”
Who acts: one poor nobleman · What happens: cry out, find out · To what, where: kingly Majesty · 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 (one poor nobleman), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 cried | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 nobleman | nummod |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nobleman | amod |
| 4 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 cried | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Majesty | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Majesty | punct |
| 9 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 10 | kingly | kingly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Majesty | amod |
| 11 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 find | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cried | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 find | compound:prt |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | past | one poor nobleman | Your kingly Majesty | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find out in a quote | future | one poor nobleman = nobleman | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: 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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