Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 8
So Iván Tsarévich was again left alone, and he wept bitterly; and once again he returned to Márya Moryévna, and this time too Koshchéy was not at home.
Who acts: Koshchéy, time · What happens: leave, weep, return, not be · To what, where: Iván, Márya, home
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 (Koshchéy, time), 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 | _ | 6 left | advmod |
| 2 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 left | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Iván | flat |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | aux:pass |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 left | advmod |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 left | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wept | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wept | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wept | nsubj |
| 11 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | conj |
| 12 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 11 wept | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 returned | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 once | cc |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 again | advmod |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 returned | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 returned | nsubj |
| 18 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Márya | case |
| 20 | Márya | Márya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 returned | obl |
| 21 | Moryévna | Moryévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Márya | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 home | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 home | cc |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 time | det |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 home | nsubj |
| 26 | too | too | ADV | _ | 27 Koshchéy | advmod |
| 27 | Koshchéy | Koshchéy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 time | appos |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 home | cop |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 home | advmod |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 home | case |
| 31 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 returned | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | Iván | again | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | weep | past | Koshchéy | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | return | past | Koshchéy | Márya | again | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to márya=Result | |||
| 4 | not is | past | this time | home | tree rules |
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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