Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 64
Two days later Tsar Bárkhat sent another message to Pope Vasíli, begging him send his son Vasíli Vasílyevich.
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: send, beg · To what, where: message, Pope, horse, son
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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 later | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 sent | advmod |
| 4 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | Bárkhat | Bárkhat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Tsar | flat |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 message | det |
| 8 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Pope | case |
| 10 | Pope | Pope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 message | nmod |
| 11 | Vasíli | Vasíli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Pope | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 begging | punct |
| 13 | begging | beg | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 sent | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 begging | obj |
| 15 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 begging | xcomp |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 send | obj |
| 18 | Vasíli | Vasíli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 son | appos |
| 19 | Vasílyevich | Vasílyevich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Vasíli | flat |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Tsar | another message | Pope | late property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to pope=Destination | ||
| 2 | beg speech: request | gerund | Tsar not said here | horse | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | send not said to happen | infinitive | Tsar not said here | horse's son | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme |
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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