Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 69
“The scions of kings are not slain, and are not put in prison; they are sent out into the white world to meet whatever fate God may send them.”
Who acts: whatever · What happens: not slay, not put, send out, meet, fate, send · To what, where: scions, prison, white world, God · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (whatever), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 slain | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 scions | det |
| 3 | scions | scion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 slain | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 kings | case |
| 5 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 scions | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 slain | aux:pass |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 slain | advmod |
| 8 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 send | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 put | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 put | cc |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 put | aux:pass |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 put | advmod |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 slain | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 prison | case |
| 15 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 sent | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sent | aux:pass |
| 19 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 slain | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 sent | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 world | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 world | det |
| 23 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 world | amod |
| 24 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sent | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 meet | mark |
| 26 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 sent | advcl |
| 27 | whatever | whatever | DET | PronType=Int | 28 fate | nsubj |
| 28 | fate | fate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 meet | ccomp |
| 29 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 fate | obj |
| 30 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 send | aux |
| 31 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 send | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 send | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not slay in a quote | present · passive | the scions of kings | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | not put in a quote | present · passive | prison | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in prison=Destination | |||||
| 3 | send out in a quote | present · passive | scions = scion | the white world | out property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | meet in a quote | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | fate in a quote | present | whatever | God | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | send in a quote | may | scions = scion | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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