Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 57
She humbly prayed God, crossed herself as is ordained, bowed to all four sides, and greeted Tsar Bárkhat friendlywise, and with him entered the palace.
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: pray, cross, ordain, bow, greet, enter · To what, where: God, Tsar, Tsar friendlywise, palace
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 prayed | nsubj |
| 2 | humbly | humbly | ADV | _ | 3 prayed | advmod |
| 3 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 prayed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 crossed | punct |
| 6 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 prayed | conj |
| 7 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 crossed | obj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 ordained | mark |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ordained | aux:pass |
| 10 | ordained | ordain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 crossed | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bowed | punct |
| 12 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 ordained | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 sides | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 sides | det |
| 15 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 sides | nummod |
| 16 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bowed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 greeted | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 greeted | cc |
| 19 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 prayed | parataxis |
| 20 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 friendlywise | compound |
| 21 | Bárkhat | Bárkhat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Tsar | flat |
| 22 | friendlywise | friendlywise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 greeted | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 entered | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 entered | cc |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 entered | obl |
| 27 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 greeted | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 palace | det |
| 29 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 entered | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 prayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | past | Tsar | God | humbly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cross | past | Tsar not said here | Tsar | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ordain | present · passive | Tsar not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 4 | bow | participle | Tsar not said here | to all four sides | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to side=Theme | ||||
| 5 | greet speech: greet | past | Tsar friendlywise | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friendlywise=Theme | |||||
| 6 | enter | past | the palace | with God | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination |
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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