Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 59
Now, the Tsar himself became ill, and the soldier was called in.
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: become, call in · To what, where: soldier
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 (Tsar), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 became | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Tsar | det |
| 4 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 became | nsubj |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 Tsar | nmod |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 became | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 called | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 soldier | det |
| 11 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 called | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 called | aux:pass |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 became | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 called | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the Tsar soldier | now | ill property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | call in speech: assert | past · passive | the soldier | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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