Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 70
So Iván Tsarévich was sent out into the white world, to wander in the four directions, to suffer the midday winds and the stress of the winter and the blasts of the autumn; and was given only a birch-bark wallet and Dyád’ka, his servant.
What happens: send out, wander, suffer, give, stress, blast · To what, where: Iván, white world, four directions, midday winds, bark wallet, winter
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: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 sent | advmod |
| 2 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Iván | flat |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | aux:pass |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 sent | compound:prt |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 world | amod |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wander | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 wander | mark |
| 13 | wander | wander | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 directions | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 directions | det |
| 16 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 directions | nummod |
| 17 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wander | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 suffer | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 suffer | mark |
| 20 | suffer | suffer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 wander | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 winds | det |
| 22 | midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 winds | compound |
| 23 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 suffer | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stress | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 stress | det |
| 26 | stress | stress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 winds | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 winter | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 winter | det |
| 29 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stress | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 blasts | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 blasts | det |
| 32 | blasts | blast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 winds | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 autumn | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 autumn | det |
| 35 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 blasts | nmod |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 given | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 given | cc |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 given | aux:pass |
| 39 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sent | advcl |
| 40 | only | only | ADV | _ | 45 wallet | advmod |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 wallet | det |
| 42 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 bark | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 birch | punct |
| 44 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 wallet | compound |
| 45 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 given | obj |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 Dyád’ka | cc |
| 47 | Dyád’ka | Dyád'ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 wallet | conj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 servant | punct |
| 49 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 servant | nmod:poss |
| 50 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 wallet | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send out | past · passive | Iván | the white world | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wander | to-infinitive | the four directions | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | suffer | to-infinitive | the midday winds and the stress of the winter and the blasts of the autumn | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wind=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | give | past · passive | a bark wallet and Dyád’ka and Iván's servant | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: wallet=Theme | |||||
| 5 | stress | the winter | nom stress «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | blast | the autumn | nom blast «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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