Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 35
Prince Vladímir came to meet the doughty youths and set them down at an oaken table, gave the doughty youths good food and drink, and then asked their news.
Who acts: Vladímir · What happens: come, meet, set down, give, ask · To what, where: doughty youths, youths, oaken table, news
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 (Vladímir), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Vladímir | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Vladímir | Vladímir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 meet | mark |
| 5 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 youths | det |
| 7 | doughty | doughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 youths | amod |
| 8 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 meet | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 meet | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 set | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 table | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 table | det |
| 15 | oaken | oaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 table | amod |
| 16 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 youths | det |
| 20 | doughty | doughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 youths | amod |
| 21 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 gave | obj |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 food | amod |
| 23 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 youths | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 drink | cc |
| 25 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 food | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 asked | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 asked | cc |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 asked | advmod |
| 29 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 news | nmod:poss |
| 31 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 asked | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Vladímir Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | Vladímir Prince not said here | the doughty youths | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | set down | infinitive | Vladímir Prince not said here | youths = youth | a oaken table | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme at table=Destination | |||
| 4 | give | past | Vladímir Prince not said here | the doughty youths and good food and drink | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Theme | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | youths's news | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent news=Recipient |
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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