Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 36
At the same time the entire kingdom awoke, and in the streets and in the houses people bestirred themselves, and in the palace the Tsarévna and her generals and her suite appeared, and all began to thank the soldier, and they made him their king.
Who acts: entire kingdom, people · What happens: awake, bestir, appear, begin, thank, make · To what, where: streets, people, palace, soldier, king
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 (entire kingdom, people), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 awoke | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kingdom | det |
| 6 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kingdom | amod |
| 7 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 awoke | nsubj |
| 8 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 streets | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 streets | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 streets | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 streets | det |
| 13 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 awoke | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 houses | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 houses | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 houses | det |
| 17 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 streets | conj |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 appeared | nsubj |
| 19 | bestirred | bestir | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 people | acl |
| 20 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 bestirred | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 appeared | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 appeared | cc |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 palace | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 palace | det |
| 25 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 appeared | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Tsarévna | det |
| 27 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 appeared | nsubj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 generals | cc |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 generals | nmod:poss |
| 30 | generals | general | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 Tsarévna | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 suite | cc |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 suite | nmod:poss |
| 33 | suite | suite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Tsarévna | conj |
| 34 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 streets | acl:relcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 began | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 began | cc |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 began | advmod |
| 38 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 appeared | conj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 thank | mark |
| 40 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 began | xcomp |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 soldier | det |
| 42 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 thank | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 made | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 made | cc |
| 45 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 made | nsubj |
| 46 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 appeared | conj |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 made | obj |
| 48 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 king | nmod:poss |
| 49 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 made | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the entire kingdom | the streets and the houses | time | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in street=Location | |||
| 2 | bestir | participle | people not said here | people | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | appear | past | people | the streets and the houses not said here | the palace | the Tsarévna and Tsarévna's generals and Tsarévna's suite nsubj | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location street=Theme | ||
| 4 | begin | past | people not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | thank speech: thank | to-infinitive | people not said here | the soldier | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme | ||||
| 6 | make | past | people | people's king | soldier | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary king=Product |
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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