Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 164
And when he came down from the mountain, the Sister of the Sun met him and asked, “Iván Tsarévich, why hast thou wept?”
Who acts: Tsarévich, Sister, thou · What happens: come down, meet, ask, have, weep · To what, where: mountain, Tsarévich, Iván · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tsarévich, Sister, thou), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 met | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 met | advcl |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 mountain | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mountain | det |
| 8 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sister | det |
| 11 | Sister | Sister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 met | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Sun | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Sun | det |
| 14 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sister | nmod |
| 15 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 met | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 asked | cc |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 met | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Iván | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Iván | punct |
| 21 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 asked | obl |
| 22 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Iván | flat |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hast | punct |
| 24 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 hast | advmod |
| 25 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 met | conj |
| 26 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 wept | nsubj |
| 27 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 hast | ccomp |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 met | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | Tsarévich | the mountain | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mountain=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | meet | past | the Sister of the Sun | Tsarévich | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the Sister of the Sun not said here | Iván | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | the Sister of the Sun not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | weep in a quote | past | thou | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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