Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 17
Then the king summoned the poor nobleman, and asked him, “Did you keep watch on my daughters?”
Who acts: king, nobleman · What happens: summon, ask, keep · To what, where: poor nobleman, nobleman, watch · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 summoned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 summoned | nsubj |
| 4 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 nobleman | det |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 nobleman | amod |
| 7 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 summoned | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 summoned | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 keep | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 keep | punct |
| 14 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 keep | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 keep | nsubj |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 keep | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 daughters | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 20 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 keep | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 keep | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past | the king | the poor nobleman | then | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobleman=Recipient | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the king not said here | nobleman | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | past · do-support | nobleman | watch | on my daughters | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme on daughter=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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