Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 89
So the king asked Iván from what realm he came, and how his father and mother were named.
Who acts: king, realm · What happens: ask, come, name · To what, where: Iván, father
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 (king, realm), 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 | _ | 4 asked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | iobj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 what | case |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 asked | obl |
| 8 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 named | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 named | cc |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 named | advmod |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 named | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 mother | cc |
| 17 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 father | conj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 named | aux:pass |
| 19 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 asked | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the king | Iván | what obl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent iván=Recipient | |||
| 2 | come | past | realm | king nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | name | past · passive | king's father and mother | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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