Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 120
Then the King asked him, “Tell me on your faith and oath, whence are you and where are you going?”
Who acts: King, soldier · What happens: ask, tell, go · To what, where: soldier, King, faith · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King, soldier), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 asked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 asked | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Tell | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Tell | punct |
| 8 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | conj |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 Tell | iobj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 faith | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 faith | nmod:poss |
| 12 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Tell | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 oath | cc |
| 14 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 faith | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 going | punct |
| 16 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 going | advmod |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 going | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 going | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 going | cc |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 going | advmod |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 going | aux |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 going | nsubj |
| 23 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 going | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the King | soldier | then | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | the King not said here | the King = king | your faith and oath | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · progressive | soldier | whence property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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