Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 4
So the elder brother served the Tsar with faith and loyalty, and was so fortunate in his service that in a few years he attained a general’s rank.
Who acts: elder brother, brother · What happens: serve, be, attain, service · To what, where: Tsar, service
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 (elder brother, brother), 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 | _ | 5 served | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brother | det |
| 3 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brother | amod |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 served | nsubj |
| 5 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Tsar | det |
| 7 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 served | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 faith | case |
| 9 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 served | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 loyalty | cc |
| 11 | loyalty | loyalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 faith | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fortunate | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fortunate | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fortunate | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 fortunate | advmod |
| 16 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 served | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 service | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 service | nmod:poss |
| 19 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fortunate | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 attained | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 years | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 years | det |
| 23 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 years | amod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 attained | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 attained | nsubj |
| 26 | attained | attain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 service | acl:relcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 general | det |
| 28 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rank | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 general | case |
| 30 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 attained | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | past | the elder brother | the Tsar | with faith and loyalty | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent tsar=Recipient with faith=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | the elder brother not said here | brother's service | fortunate property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | attain | past | brother | brother's service | year | a general's rank obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rank=Theme | ||
| 4 | service | brother | nom service «act transitive»: poss=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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