Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 84
In that kingdom there was a custom that all merchants who arrived should bring some of all their wares as a homage to the king.
Who acts: custom, merchants · What happens: be, arrive, bring · To what, where: kingdom, custom
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 (custom, merchants), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 kingdom | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 kingdom | det |
| 3 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 custom | det |
| 7 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 bring | obj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 merchants | det |
| 10 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bring | nsubj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 arrived | nsubj |
| 12 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 merchants | acl:relcl |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 bring | aux |
| 14 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 custom | acl:relcl |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 bring | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 wares | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 wares | det:predet |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wares | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wares | ware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 some | nmod |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 homage | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 homage | det |
| 22 | homage | homage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 king | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 king | det |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a custom | that kingdom; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kingdom=Location | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | all merchants | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bring | should | all merchants | a custom | as a homage; to the king | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent that=Destination some=Theme |
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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