Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 51
The Tsar had hardly reached home before he sent a note to Pope Vasíli, bidding his son Vasíli Vasílyevich come and dine with him at the imperial table.
Who acts: King · What happens: reach, send, bid, come, dine · To what, where: Tsar, note, Pope, son, imperial table
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Tsar | det |
| 2 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | aux |
| 4 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 5 reached | advmod |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 reached | advmod |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 sent | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sent | nsubj |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 note | det |
| 11 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Pope | case |
| 13 | Pope | Pope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obl |
| 14 | Vasíli | Vasíli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Pope | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bidding | punct |
| 16 | bidding | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 come | nsubj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bidding | obj |
| 19 | Vasíli | Vasíli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 son | appos |
| 20 | Vasílyevich | Vasílyevich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Vasíli | flat |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dine | cc |
| 23 | dine | dine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 come | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 dine | obl |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 table | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 table | det |
| 28 | imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 table | amod |
| 29 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dine | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect · passive | the Tsar | hardly, home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | past | King | a note | Pope | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent note=Theme to pope=Destination | |||
| 3 | bid | gerund | King's son | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | come | present | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | dine | present | the imperial table | with King | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=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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