Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 115
Whomsoever Tsar Alexander of Macedon might go to combat, he would conquer, and he numbered under his sway all the kings of the earth.
Who acts: Whomsoever · What happens: go, combat, conquer, number · To what, where: kings, sway
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whomsoever), 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 | Whomsoever | Whomsoever | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 go | nsubj |
| 2 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Whomsoever | flat |
| 3 | Alexander | Alexander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Whomsoever | flat |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Macedon | case |
| 5 | Macedon | Macedon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Alexander | nmod |
| 6 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 combat | mark |
| 9 | combat | combat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 go | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 conquer | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 conquer | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 conquer | aux |
| 13 | conquer | conquer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 go | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 numbered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 numbered | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 numbered | nsubj |
| 17 | numbered | number | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | parataxis |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 sway | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sway | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sway | sway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 numbered | obl |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 kings | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 kings | det |
| 23 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 numbered | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 earth | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 earth | det |
| 26 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kings | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | might | Whomsoever | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | combat | to-infinitive | Whomsoever not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | conquer | would | Whomsoever | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | number | past | Whomsoever | all kings of the earth | Whomsoever's sway | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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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