Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 134
But as for you, _boyár_, you were not able to keep your rank.
Who acts: you · What happens: not be, keep · To what, where: rank
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 able | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 you | case |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 2 as | fixed |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 able | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 you | punct |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 boyár | punct |
| 7 | boyár | boyár | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 you | conj |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 you | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 you | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 able | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 able | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 able | advmod |
| 13 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 keep | mark |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 able | xcomp |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 rank | nmod:poss |
| 17 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keep | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | you | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | you not said here | your rank | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rank=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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