Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 80
Márya Moryévna took him with her to her own kingdom, and they lived together for some time; and they thought of making ready for war; and so she handed all of her possessions over to Iván, and said: “Go everywhere, look at everything, only into this lumber-room you must not look.”
Who acts: Márya, tents, MÁRYA, you · What happens: take, live together, think, make, hand, say · To what, where: Iván, own kingdom, all, lumber room · 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 (Márya, tents, MÁRYA, you), 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 | Márya | Márya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | Moryévna | Moryévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Márya | flat |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 kingdom | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 kingdom | amod |
| 10 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lived | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lived | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lived | nsubj |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 lived | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 thought | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 thought | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 thought | nsubj |
| 22 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 23 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 24 making | mark |
| 24 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 thought | advcl |
| 25 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 making | xcomp |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 war | case |
| 27 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ready | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 handed | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 handed | cc |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 handed | advmod |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 handed | nsubj |
| 32 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 handed | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 possessions | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 possessions | nmod:poss |
| 36 | possessions | possession | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 all | nmod |
| 37 | over | over | ADV | _ | 32 handed | advmod |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 Iván | case |
| 39 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 handed | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 said | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 said | cc |
| 42 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 handed | conj |
| 43 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 45 Go | punct |
| 44 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 Go | punct |
| 45 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 42 said | ccomp |
| 46 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 45 Go | advmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 look | punct |
| 48 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 45 Go | conj |
| 49 | at | at | ADP | _ | 50 everything | case |
| 50 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 48 look | obl |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 room | punct |
| 52 | only | only | ADV | _ | 57 room | advmod |
| 53 | into | into | ADP | _ | 57 room | case |
| 54 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 57 room | nsubj |
| 55 | lumber | lumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 room | compound |
| 56 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 55 lumber | punct |
| 57 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 Go | obl |
| 58 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 61 look | nsubj |
| 59 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 61 look | aux |
| 60 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 61 look | advmod |
| 61 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 57 room | acl:relcl |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 45 Go | punct |
| 63 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Márya | Iván | MÁRYA's own kingdom | with love | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to kingdom=Destination | ||
| 2 | live together | past | tents = tent | time | together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | tents = tent | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make | gerund | tents = tent not said here | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 5 | hand | past | MÁRYA = márya | all of MÁRYA's possessions | Iván | over property | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent all=Theme to iván=Destination | ||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | MÁRYA = márya not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | go in a quote | infinitive | lumber room this | everywhere property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | look in a quote | infinitive | at everything | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at everything=Theme | |||||
| 9 | not look in a quote | must | you | lumber room this not said here | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Attribute | ||||
| 10 | possess | MÁRYA = márya | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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