Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 86
Iván obeyed the old man, and the next day went to make his homage to the king.
Who acts: Iván, next day · What happens: obey, go, make · To what, where: old man, homage
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, next day), 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 | 2 obeyed | nsubj |
| 2 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 obeyed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 9 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 day | amod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 obeyed | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 make | mark |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 went | xcomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 homage | nmod:poss |
| 15 | homage | homage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 king | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past | Iván | the old man | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the next day | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | the next day not said here | man's homage | to the king | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset homage=Product |
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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