Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 77
And Iván Tsarévich answered her: “Doughty youths do not go perforce.”
Who acts: Iván, Doughty youths · What happens: answer, not go · To what, where: MÁRYA, perforce · 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, Doughty youths), 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 | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Iván | flat |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 answered | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 8 | Doughty | doughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 youths | amod |
| 9 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 go | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 go | advmod |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 13 | perforce | perforce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Iván | MÁRYA = márya | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not go in a quote | present · do-support | Doughty youths | perforce | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location perforce=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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