Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 145
He used to open his imperial palace to whoever would be his guest.
Who acts: father · What happens: use, open, be · To what, where: imperial palace, whoever, guest
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 used | nsubj |
| 2 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 open | mark |
| 4 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 used | xcomp |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 palace | nmod:poss |
| 6 | imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 palace | amod |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 open | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 whoever | case |
| 9 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 open | obl |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 guest | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 guest | cop |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 guest | nmod:poss |
| 13 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 whoever | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | father | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | open | to-infinitive | father not said here | father's imperial palace | whoever | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent palace=Patient to whoever=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is a | would | father's guest | father nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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