Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 73
And one man who was still alive replied: “All this mighty host was conquered by Márya Moryévna, the fair princess.”
Who acts: one man, Márya · What happens: be, reply, conquer · To what, where: mighty host · 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 (one man, Márya), 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 | _ | 8 replied | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 man | nummod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 alive | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 alive | cop |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 alive | advmod |
| 7 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | acl:relcl |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 conquered | punct |
| 11 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 host | det |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 host | det |
| 13 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 host | amod |
| 14 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 conquered | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 conquered | aux:pass |
| 16 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 replied | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 Márya | case |
| 18 | Márya | Márya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 conquered | obl |
| 19 | Moryévna | Moryévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Márya | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 princess | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 princess | det |
| 22 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 princess | amod |
| 23 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Márya | appos |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | one man | still | alive property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle | one man | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | conquer in a quote | past · passive | Márya | all mighty host | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
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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