Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 99
The potter carried out the Tsar’s orders and brought his goods into the city.
Who acts: potter, Tsar · What happens: carry out, bring, order · To what, where: orders, goods, city
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 (potter, Tsar), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 potter | det |
| 2 | potter | potter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 carried | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tsar | det |
| 6 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 orders | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Tsar | case |
| 8 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carried | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 brought | cc |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 goods | nmod:poss |
| 12 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 brought | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 city | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 city | det |
| 15 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry out | past | the potter | the Tsar's orders | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | the potter not said here | Tsar's goods | the city | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent goods=Theme into city=Destination | |||
| 3 | order | the Tsar | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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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