Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 50
I am certain of it; she is the daughter of Pope Vasíli, and her name is Vasilísa Vasílyevna.”
Who acts: I, Tsar, name · What happens: be, name · To what, where: daughter, Vasilísa
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 (I, Tsar, name), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 certain | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 certain | cop |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 certain | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 daughter | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 daughter | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 daughter | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 daughter | det |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 certain | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Pope | case |
| 12 | Pope | Pope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 daughter | nmod |
| 13 | Vasíli | Vasíli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Pope | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Vasilísa | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Vasilísa | cc |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 name | nmod:poss |
| 17 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Vasilísa | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Vasilísa | cop |
| 19 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 certain | parataxis |
| 20 | Vasílyevna | Vasílyevna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Vasilísa | flat |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 Vasilísa | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Vasilísa | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | of maiden; certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Tsar | the daughter | of Pope | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | Tsar's name | Vasilísa | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | name | Tsar | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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