Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 63
Iván was extremely joyous at so big a profit, and he called in the Pope, and he recited the prayer to Nicholas the Wonder-Worker.
Who acts: Iván · What happens: be, call, recite · To what, where: big profit, Pope, prayer, Nicholas · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 joyous | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 joyous | cop |
| 3 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 4 joyous | advmod |
| 4 | joyous | joyous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 profit | case |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 big | advmod |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 profit | amod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 profit | det |
| 9 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 joyous | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 called | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 called | nsubj |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 joyous | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Pope | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Pope | det |
| 16 | Pope | Pope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 called | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 recited | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 recited | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 recited | nsubj |
| 20 | recited | recite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 joyous | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 prayer | det |
| 22 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 recited | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Nicholas | case |
| 24 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 recited | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Worker | det |
| 26 | Wonder | Wonder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Worker | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Wonder | punct |
| 28 | Worker | Worker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Nicholas | appos |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 joyous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Iván | a big profit | extremely, joyous property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call | past | Iván | the Pope | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | recite | past | Iván | the prayer | Nicholas | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic to nicholas=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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