Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 66
Tsar Bárkhat came to meet her, and she greeted him friendlily, modestly prayed to God, crossed herself, as is becoming, and bowed to the four quarters of the wind.
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: come, meet, greet, pray, cross, become · To what, where: Tsar, horse, God
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 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 2 | Bárkhat | Bárkhat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tsar | flat |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 meet | mark |
| 5 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | xcomp |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 meet | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 greeted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 greeted | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 greeted | nsubj |
| 10 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 greeted | obj |
| 12 | friendlily | friendlily | ADV | _ | 10 greeted | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 prayed | punct |
| 14 | modestly | modestly | ADV | _ | 15 prayed | advmod |
| 15 | prayed | pray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 God | case |
| 17 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 prayed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 crossed | punct |
| 19 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 20 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 crossed | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 becoming | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 becoming | mark |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 becoming | aux |
| 24 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 crossed | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bowed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 bowed | cc |
| 27 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 becoming | xcomp |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 quarters | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 quarters | det |
| 30 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 quarters | nummod |
| 31 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 bowed | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 wind | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 wind | det |
| 34 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 quarters | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Tsar | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | Tsar not said here | Tsar | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | greet speech: greet | past | Tsar | horse | friendlily property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | pray | participle | Tsar not said here | God | modestly property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 5 | cross | past | Tsar not said here | Tsar | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | ||||
| 6 | become | present · progressive | Tsar not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | bow | participle | Tsar not said here | to the four quarters of the wind | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to quarter=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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