Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 5
So the Tsar awarded him great honours, promised him his daughter, and set a great feast.
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: award, promise, set · To what, where: great honours, son, daughter, great feast
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 (Tsar), 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 | _ | 4 awarded | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 awarded | nsubj |
| 4 | awarded | award | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 awarded | obj |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 honours | amod |
| 7 | honours | honour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 awarded | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 promised | punct |
| 9 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 awarded | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 promised | iobj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 promised | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 set | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 set | cc |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 awarded | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 feast | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 feast | amod |
| 18 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 awarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | award | past | the Tsar | great honours | son | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal honour=Theme | |||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | the Tsar not said here | son's daughter | son | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal daughter=Theme | |||
| 3 | set | infinitive | the Tsar not said here | a great feast | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient feast=Result |
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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