Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 132
And he issued a decree throughout his land, summoned the _boyárs_ and knights together, and promised any who would slay the seven-headed monster half of his wealth and half his realm, and also his daughter as his wife.
Who acts: monster · What happens: issue, summon, promise, slay, head · To what, where: decree, boyárs, any, headed monster half
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monster), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 issued | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 issued | nsubj |
| 3 | issued | issue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 decree | det |
| 5 | decree | decree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 issued | obj |
| 6 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 land | nmod:poss |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 issued | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 summoned | punct |
| 10 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 issued | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boyárs | det |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 boyárs | punct |
| 13 | boyárs | boyár | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 summoned | obj |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 boyárs | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 knights | cc |
| 16 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 boyárs | conj |
| 17 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 summoned | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 promised | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 promised | cc |
| 20 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 issued | conj |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 promised | obj |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 slay | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 slay | aux |
| 24 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 any | acl:relcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 half | det |
| 26 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 headed | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 seven | punct |
| 28 | headed | head | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 half | amod |
| 29 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 half | compound |
| 30 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 24 slay | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 wealth | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 33 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 half | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 realm | cc |
| 35 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 37 realm | det:predet |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 realm | nmod:poss |
| 37 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 half | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 daughter | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 daughter | cc |
| 40 | also | also | ADV | _ | 42 daughter | advmod |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 42 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 half | conj |
| 43 | as | as | ADP | _ | 45 wife | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 wife | nmod:poss |
| 45 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 slay | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 issued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | issue | past | monster | a decree | throughout monster's land | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location decree=Theme | |||
| 2 | summon | past | monster not said here | the boyárs and knights | together property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boyár=Recipient | |||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past | monster not said here | any | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent any=Theme | ||||
| 4 | slay | would | the headed monster half of monster's wealth and monster's realm and monster's daughter | as monster's wife; who nsubj | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient | ||||
| 5 | head | participle | seven compound | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: 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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