Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 101
Márya Moryévna then sat on Koshchéy’s steed, and Iván Tsarévich on his own, and the two went and stayed as guests, first of all with the Crow, then with the Eagle, and lastly with the Hawk.
Who acts: Márya, two · What happens: sit, go, stay · To what, where: steed
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Márya, two), 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 | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | Moryévna | Moryévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Márya | flat |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sat | advmod |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 steed | case |
| 6 | Koshchéy | Koshchéy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 steed | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Koshchéy | case |
| 8 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Iván | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Iván | cc |
| 11 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | conj |
| 12 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Iván | flat |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 own | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 own | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sat | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 two | det |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stayed | cc |
| 22 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 went | conj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 guests | case |
| 24 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 stayed | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 all | punct |
| 26 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 28 all | advmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 all | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 went | obl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 Crow | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Crow | det |
| 31 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 all | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Eagle | punct |
| 33 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 Eagle | advmod |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 Eagle | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Eagle | det |
| 36 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 lastly | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 lastly | cc |
| 39 | lastly | lastly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sat | conj |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 Hawk | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Hawk | det |
| 42 | Hawk | Hawk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 lastly | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Márya | Koshchéy's steed | then | on Koshchéy's own; Iván conj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on steed=Location | ||
| 2 | go | past | the two | of all with the Crow; with the Eagle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of all=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | stay | past | the two not said here | as guests | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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