Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 37
“My king and my father,” said the Tsarévich Evstáfi, “you are here with the _boyárs_ to value these cases, what they are worth.”
Who acts: king, you, cases · What happens: say, be, value · To what, where: cases · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, you, cases), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 king | nmod:poss |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 father | cc |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 king | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Evstáfi | det |
| 11 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Evstáfi | compound |
| 12 | Evstáfi | Evstáfi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 here | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 here | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 here | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 here | cop |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 said | ccomp |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 boyárs | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 boyárs | det |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 boyárs | punct |
| 21 | boyárs | boyár | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 here | obl |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 value | mark |
| 24 | value | value | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | advcl |
| 25 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 cases | det |
| 26 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 value | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 worth | punct |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 worth | obj |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 worth | nsubj |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 worth | cop |
| 31 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 cases | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My king and my father | the Tsarévich Evstáfi nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | with the boyárs; here property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | value in a quote | to-infinitive | My king and my father not said here | this cases | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer case=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | cases = case | worth property | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/18/37/