Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 11
Iván Tsarévich met Vertodúb once more, and there were only three oaks left.
Who acts: Iván, three oaks · What happens: meet, be, leave · To what, where: Vertodúb, three oaks
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, three oaks), 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 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 met | nsubj |
| 2 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Iván | flat |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Vertodúb | Vertodúb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obj |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 met | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 were | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 were | cc |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 were | expl |
| 10 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 met | conj |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 three | advmod |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 oaks | nummod |
| 13 | oaks | oak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 were | nsubj |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 oaks | acl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Iván | Vertodúb | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vertodúb=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | be | past | three oaks | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | participle | three oaks not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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