Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 89
Iván Tsarévich wept bitterly, got ready and started on his road: “Come what may, I will seek out Márya Moryévna.”
Who acts: Iván, Koshchéy · What happens: weep, get, start, come, seek out · To what, where: road, Márya · 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, Koshchéy), 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 wept | nsubj |
| 2 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Iván | flat |
| 3 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 3 wept | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wept | conj |
| 7 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 got | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 started | cc |
| 9 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wept | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 road | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 road | nmod:poss |
| 12 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 started | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Come | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Come | punct |
| 15 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wept | parataxis |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 Come | obj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 what | aux |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 seek | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 seek | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 seek | aux |
| 21 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 Come | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 seek | compound:prt |
| 23 | Márya | Márya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 seek | obj |
| 24 | Moryévna | Moryévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Márya | flat |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 Come | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | Iván | bitterly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | past | Iván not said here | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | start | past | Iván not said here | Iván's road | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | infinitive | what obj | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme | |||||
| 5 | seek out in a quote | future | Koshchéy | Márya | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent márya=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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