Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 31
So Iván Tsarévich took Márya Tsarévna to be his wife, and they celebrated a merry wedding and lived a happy life.
Who acts: Iván, birds · What happens: take, be, celebrate, live · To what, where: Márya, wife, merry wedding, happy life
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván, birds), 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 | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 3 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Iván | flat |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Márya | Márya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Márya | flat |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 wife | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wife | cop |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 celebrated | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 celebrated | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 celebrated | nsubj |
| 14 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wedding | det |
| 16 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wedding | amod |
| 17 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 celebrated | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lived | cc |
| 19 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 celebrated | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 life | det |
| 21 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 life | amod |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lived | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Iván | Márya | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument márya=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | Iván not said here | Iván's wife | Iván nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | celebrate | past | birds = bird | a merry wedding | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Theme | ||||
| 4 | live | past | birds = bird not said here | a happy life | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location |
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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