Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 108
After three days Iván Tsarévich said, “I can stay no longer with you; I am going to seek my wife, Márya Moryévna, the fair Queen.”
Who acts: Iván · What happens: say, stay, go, seek · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | obl |
| 4 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 5 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Iván | flat |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stay | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 stay | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 stay | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 stay | aux |
| 11 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | no | no | ADV | _ | 13 longer | advmod |
| 13 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 stay | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 stay | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 going | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 going | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 going | aux |
| 19 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 seek | mark |
| 21 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 going | xcomp |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 wife | nmod:poss |
| 23 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seek | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 going | punct |
| 25 | Márya | Márya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 going | xcomp |
| 26 | Moryévna | Moryévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Márya | flat |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Queen | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Queen | det |
| 29 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Queen | amod |
| 30 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Márya | appos |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Iván | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stay in a quote | can | Iván | with you; long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=Location | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · progressive | Iván | Márya xcomp | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | seek in a quote | to-infinitive | Iván not said here | my wife | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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