Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 123
What then did Tsar Alexander of Macedon do with them?
Who acts: Tsar Alexander · What happens: do
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 (Tsar Alexander), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 did | obj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 did | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Alexander | compound |
| 5 | Alexander | Alexander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 do | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Macedon | case |
| 7 | Macedon | Macedon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Alexander | nmod |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 do | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | then | What obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | do | present | Tsar Alexander of Macedon | with peoples = people | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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