Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 43
And when the Tsar heard this he grew angry, and the Tsar spoke: “This writing is falsely written; the word of the Gospel is untrue.”
Who acts: Tsar, word · What happens: hear, grow, speak, write, be, word · To what, where: this, writing, Gospel · 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 (Tsar, word), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 grew | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Tsar | det |
| 4 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 grew | advcl |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 heard | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grew | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spoke | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 spoke | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Tsar | det |
| 13 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 spoke | nsubj |
| 14 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 grew | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 written | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 written | punct |
| 17 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 writing | det |
| 18 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 written | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 written | aux:pass |
| 20 | falsely | falsely | ADV | _ | 21 written | advmod |
| 21 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 spoke | ccomp |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 untrue | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 word | det |
| 24 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 untrue | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Gospel | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Gospel | det |
| 27 | Gospel | Gospel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 word | nmod |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 untrue | cop |
| 29 | untrue | untrue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grew | parataxis |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 untrue | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Tsar | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | Tsar | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | the Tsar | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | write in a quote | present · passive | this writing | falsely property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | the word of the Gospel | untrue property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | word in a quote | the Gospel | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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