Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 34
And Alyósha Popóvich went straight to the white stone palace, to Prince Vladímir, crossed himself as is befitting, bowed down in learned-wise in all four directions, and especially low to Prince Vladímir.
Who acts: Alyósha · What happens: go, cross, befit, bow down, learn · To what, where: Prince, white stone palace, ALYÓSHA
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alyósha), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | Alyósha | Alyósha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | Popóvich | Popóvich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Alyósha | flat |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 10 palace | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 palace | amod |
| 9 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 palace | compound |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Prince | punct |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Prince | case |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 14 | Vladímir | Vladímir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Prince | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 crossed | punct |
| 16 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 crossed | obj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 befitting | mark |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 befitting | aux |
| 20 | befitting | befit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 crossed | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bowed | punct |
| 22 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 befitting | conj |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 bowed | compound:prt |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 bowed | obl |
| 25 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 in | fixed |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 wise | punct |
| 27 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 learned | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 directions | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 directions | det |
| 30 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 directions | nummod |
| 31 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 wise | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 low | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 low | cc |
| 34 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 35 low | advmod |
| 35 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 wise | conj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 Prince | case |
| 37 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 low | obl |
| 38 | Vladímir | Vladímir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Prince | flat |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Alyósha | Prince | the white stone palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location to prince=Destination | |||
| 2 | cross | past | Alyósha not said here | ALYÓSHA = alyósha | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | befit | present · progressive | Alyósha not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bow down | participle | Alyósha not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «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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