Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 64

He assembled all the _boyárs_, generals, and senators to pronounce the Queen’s doom, whether she should have her head cut off, or should be merely banished.

Who acts: Woodsprite, wife, head, Queen · What happens: assemble, pronounce, have, cut off, banish, doom · To what, where: boyárs, doom, head

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 (Woodsprite, wife, head, Queen), 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 assembled	nsubj
2	assembled	assemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 boyárs	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boyárs	det
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 boyárs	punct
6	boyárs	boyár	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 assembled	obj
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 boyárs	punct
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 generals	punct
9	generals	general	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 boyárs	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 senators	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 senators	cc
12	senators	senator	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 assembled	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 pronounce	mark
14	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 assembled	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Queen	det
16	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 doom	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 Queen	case
18	doom	doom	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pronounce	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
20	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	23 have	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 have	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 have	aux
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 assembled	parataxis
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 have	obj
26	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 have	xcomp
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 cut	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 banished	punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 banished	cc
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 banished	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 banished	aux:pass
32	merely	merely	ADV	_	33 banished	advmod
33	banished	banish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 have	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 assembled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	assemble	past	Woodsprite	all boyárs and generals	senators obl	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent boyár=Theme
2	pronounce	to-infinitive	Woodsprite not said here	the Queen's doom		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doom=Theme
3	have	should	wife	wife's head		tree rules
4	cut off	participle	wife's head not said here			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	banish	should · passive	wife not said here		merely property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»
6	doom		the Queen			nom doom «event transitive»: poss=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 64

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 64