Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 59
But Iván Tsarévich assembled all the Princes and the _boyárs_, and he asked them: “With which wife shall I live?”
Who acts: Iván, daughter · What happens: assemble, ask, live · To what, where: Princes · Speech: someone speaks here
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, daughter), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 assembled | cc |
| 2 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 assembled | nsubj |
| 3 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Iván | flat |
| 4 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 Princes | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Princes | det |
| 7 | Princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 assembled | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 boyárs | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boyárs | det |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 boyárs | punct |
| 11 | boyárs | boyár | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Princes | conj |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 Princes | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asked | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 assembled | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | obj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 live | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 live | punct |
| 20 | With | with | ADP | _ | 22 wife | case |
| 21 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 22 wife | det |
| 22 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 live | obl |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 live | aux |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 live | nsubj |
| 25 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 assembled | parataxis |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 25 live | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | past | Iván | all Princes and the boyárs | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Iván | Princes = prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | live in a quote | shall | the daughter of the witch = daughter | with which wife | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with wife=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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