Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 47
Once Tsar Bárkhat[22] (this was the name of the King) was travelling through this same country hunting deer, and Vasilísa Vasílyevna met him: she was riding out to hounds in a man’s clothes.
Who acts: this, Tsar, Vasilísa, VASILÍSA · What happens: be, travel, hunt, meet, ride out · To what, where: name, same country, deer, King, clothes
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 (this, Tsar, Vasilísa, VASILÍSA), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 17 travelling | mark |
| 2 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 travelling | nsubj |
| 3 | Bárkhat | Bárkhat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Tsar | flat |
| 4 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 5 22 | punct |
| 5 | 22 | 22 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Tsar | appos |
| 6 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 5 22 | punct |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 name | punct |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 name | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 name | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 name | det |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tsar | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 King | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 name | nmod |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 name | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 travelling | aux |
| 17 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 met | advcl |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 country | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 country | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 country | amod |
| 21 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 travelling | obl |
| 22 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 travelling | conj |
| 23 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 hunting | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 met | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 met | cc |
| 26 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 met | nsubj |
| 27 | Vasílyevna | Vasílyevna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Vasilísa | flat |
| 28 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 met | obj |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 riding | punct |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 riding | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 riding | aux |
| 33 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 met | advcl |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 riding | compound:prt |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 hounds | case |
| 36 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 riding | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 clothes | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 man | det |
| 39 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 39 man | case |
| 41 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 33 riding | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this | the name | of the King | tree rules | |||
| 2 | travel | past · progressive | Tsar | this same country | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through country=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | hunt | gerund | Tsar not said here | deer | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme | ||||
| 4 | meet | past | Vasilísa | King | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | ride out | past · progressive | VASILÍSA = vasilísa | a man's clothes | to hounds | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to hound=Trajectory |
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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