Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 17
Just about this time the Tsar was setting out, and made a mighty hunt with a splendid suite.
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: set out, make · To what, where: mighty hunt
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), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 time | advmod |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 setting | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tsar | det |
| 6 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 setting | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 setting | aux |
| 8 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 setting | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 setting | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hunt | det |
| 14 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hunt | amod |
| 15 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 suite | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 suite | det |
| 18 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 suite | amod |
| 19 | suite | suite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 setting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past · progressive | the Tsar | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | a mighty hunt | with a splendid suite | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hunt=Product |
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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