Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 110
So Iván landed, and the king’s attendants took Iván into the church and locked it, and he began to read the Psalter.
Who acts: Iván, attendants · What happens: land, take, lock, begin, read · To what, where: Iván, church, Psalter
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván, attendants), 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 | _ | 3 landed | advmod |
| 2 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 landed | nsubj |
| 3 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 landed | conj |
| 11 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 church | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 church | det |
| 14 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 locked | cc |
| 16 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 landed | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 locked | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 began | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 began | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 began | nsubj |
| 21 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 landed | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 read | mark |
| 23 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 began | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Psalter | det |
| 25 | Psalter | Psalter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 read | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 landed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | past | Iván | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | past | the king's attendants | Iván | the church | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent iván=Theme into church=Destination | |||
| 3 | lock | past | Iván not said here | church | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | Iván | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | read | to-infinitive | Iván not said here | the Psalter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent psalter=Topic |
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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