Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 37
The soldier came to the Tsar, and he told him some kind of tale how he had delivered the palace from the infernal visitation.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: come, tell, deliver · To what, where: Tsar, kind, palace, infernal visitation · 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 (soldier), 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 soldier | det |
| 2 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Tsar | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tsar | det |
| 6 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | nsubj |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | iobj |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 kind | det |
| 13 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 tale | case |
| 15 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kind | nmod |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 delivered | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 delivered | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 delivered | aux |
| 19 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 told | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 palace | det |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 delivered | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 visitation | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 visitation | det |
| 24 | infernal | infernal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 visitation | amod |
| 25 | visitation | visitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 delivered | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the soldier | the Tsar | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tsar=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | soldier | some kind of tale | Tsar | tree rules | |||
| 3 | deliver | past · perfect | soldier | the palace | the infernal visitation | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent palace=Theme from visitation=Initial_Location |
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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