Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 122
So at last they were able to hide themselves from Tsar Alexander of Macedon.
Who acts: peoples · What happens: be, hide · To what, where: last, peoples, Tsar Alexander
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 (peoples), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 able | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 able | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 able | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 able | cop |
| 6 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hide | mark |
| 8 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | xcomp |
| 9 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 hide | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 Alexander | case |
| 11 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Alexander | compound |
| 12 | Alexander | Alexander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 hide | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Macedon | case |
| 14 | Macedon | Macedon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Alexander | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | peoples = people | last | able property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hide | to-infinitive | peoples = people not said here | peoples = people | Tsar Alexander of Macedon | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient from alexander=Beneficiary |
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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