Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 43
In a certain kingdom, in a certain country, once there lived Vasíli the pope and his daughter, Vasilísa Vasílyevna.
What happens: live · To what, where: Vasíli, certain kingdom
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 kingdom | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 kingdom | det |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kingdom | amod |
| 4 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 country | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 country | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 country | det |
| 8 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 country | amod |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kingdom | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kingdom | punct |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 there | advmod |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 lived | advmod |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Vasíli | Vasíli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pope | det |
| 16 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 daughter | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 19 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pope | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Vasilísa | punct |
| 21 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 pope | appos |
| 22 | Vasílyevna | Vasílyevna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Vasilísa | flat |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Vasíli | a certain kingdom and a certain country; there | the pope and Vasíli's daughter obj | 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.
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