Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 132
“Oh, they say that a new Tsar has come on the throne and has issued a new _úkaz_ that wives are to command their husbands!”
Who acts: audiences, new Tsar, wives · What happens: say, come, issue, be · To what, where: throne, new úkaz _ · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (audiences, new Tsar, wives), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 say | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 come | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Tsar | det |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Tsar | amod |
| 9 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 come | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 say | ccomp |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 throne | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 throne | det |
| 14 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 issued | cc |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 issued | aux |
| 17 | issued | issue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 come | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 _ | det |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 _ | amod |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 _ | punct |
| 21 | úkaz | úkaz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 _ | compound |
| 22 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 issued | obj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 command | obj |
| 24 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 command | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 command | cop |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 command | mark |
| 27 | command | command | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 _ | acl:relcl |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 husbands | nmod:poss |
| 29 | husbands | husband | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 command | obj |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express in a quote | present | audiences = audience | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present · perfect | a new Tsar | the throne | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on throne=Location | ||||
| 3 | issue in a quote | present · perfect | a new Tsar not said here | a new úkaz _ | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location _=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | wives | a new úkaz _ not said here | a new úkaz _ obj; audiences's husbands obj; command property | 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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