Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 39
In a certain kingdom, in a certain state, there once lived Iván Tsarévich, who had three sisters: one was called Márya Tsarévna, the second Ólga Tsarévna, and the third Ánna Tsarévna.
Who acts: Iván · What happens: live, have, call · To what, where: Iván, certain kingdom, three sisters, one · 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 kingdom | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 kingdom | det |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kingdom | amod |
| 4 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 state | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 state | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 state | det |
| 8 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 state | amod |
| 9 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kingdom | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kingdom | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 lived | expl |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 lived | advmod |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | obl |
| 15 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Iván | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Iván | acl:relcl |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 sisters | nummod |
| 20 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 had | obj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 called | punct |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 called | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 called | aux:pass |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 lived | parataxis |
| 25 | Márya | Márya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 called | xcomp |
| 26 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Márya | flat |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Ólga | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Ólga | det |
| 29 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 Ólga | amod |
| 30 | Ólga | Ólga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Márya | conj |
| 31 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Ólga | flat |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Tsarévna | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 Tsarévna | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Tsarévna | det |
| 35 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 37 Tsarévna | amod |
| 36 | Ánna | Ánna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Tsarévna | compound |
| 37 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 called | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Iván | a certain kingdom; there | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kingdom=Location | |||
| 2 | have | past | Iván | three sisters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient | ||||
| 3 | call | past · passive | one | Márya and the second Ólga xcomp; the third Ánna Tsarévna conj | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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