Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 85
The servant-man sat as a guest with the Tsar, ate and drank at his table.
Who acts: servant man · What happens: sit, eat, drink · To what, where: table
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 (servant man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 2 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 man | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 servant | punct |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 guest | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 guest | det |
| 8 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 Tsar | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Tsar | det |
| 11 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 guest | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ate | punct |
| 13 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 drank | cc |
| 15 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ate | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 table | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 table | nmod:poss |
| 18 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drank | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the servant man | as a guest with the Tsar | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | the servant man not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | drink | past | the servant man not said here | Tsar's table | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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