Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 99
Iván Tsarévich stayed with them three little days, and then said, “I can no longer be your guest: I am going seeking my wife, Márya Moryévna the fair Princess.”
Who acts: Iván, I · What happens: stay, say, be, go, seek · To what, where: guest, fair Princess, 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 (Iván, I), 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 stayed | nsubj |
| 2 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Iván | flat |
| 3 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stayed | obl |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 days | nummod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 days | amod |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 said | advmod |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stayed | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 guest | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 guest | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 guest | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 guest | aux |
| 17 | no | no | ADV | _ | 18 longer | advmod |
| 18 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 guest | advmod |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 guest | cop |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 guest | nmod:poss |
| 21 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 going | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 going | nsubj |
| 24 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 going | aux |
| 25 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 26 | seeking | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 going | xcomp |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 wife | nmod:poss |
| 28 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 seeking | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Márya | punct |
| 30 | Márya | Márya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 going | xcomp |
| 31 | Moryévna | Moryévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Márya | flat |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Princess | det |
| 33 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Princess | amod |
| 34 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 going | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stayed | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | Iván | day | with oaks = oak | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | can | I | your guest | your nmod:poss; long property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | go in a quote | present · progressive | I | the fair Princess | Márya xcomp | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | seek in a quote | gerund | I not said here | my wife | 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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