Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 93
So the Tsarévich abode as their guest for three days, and then said, “I cannot stay with you any longer: I am going to seek my wife Márya Moryévna the fair Queen.”
Who acts: Tsarévich abode · What happens: say, not stay, go, seek · To what, where: wife · 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 (Tsarévich abode), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 abode | det |
| 3 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 abode | compound |
| 4 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 guest | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 guest | nmod:poss |
| 7 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 abode | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 days | case |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 days | nummod |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 guest | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 said | advmod |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stay | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 stay | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 stay | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 stay | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 stay | advmod |
| 20 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 stay | obl |
| 23 | any | any | ADV | _ | 24 longer | advmod |
| 24 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 stay | advmod |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 going | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 going | nsubj |
| 27 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 going | aux |
| 28 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | ccomp |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 seek | mark |
| 30 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 going | xcomp |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 wife | nmod:poss |
| 32 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 seek | obj |
| 33 | Márya | Márya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 wife | appos |
| 34 | Moryévna | Moryévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Márya | flat |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Queen | det |
| 36 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 Queen | amod |
| 37 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 seek | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 going | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Tsarévich abode as oaks's guest for three days | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not stay in a quote | can | the Tsarévich abode as oaks's guest for three days = abode | with you; long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=Location | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · progressive | the Tsarévich abode as oaks's guest for three days = abode | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | seek in a quote | to-infinitive | the Tsarévich abode as oaks's guest for three days = abode not said here | my wife | the fair Queen obl:unmarked | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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