Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 47
And the Tsar bade the priest be confined in a dungeon, and he bade that page be torn out of the Gospel Book.
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: confine, bade, tear out · To what, where: Tsar bade, dungeon, bade, Gospel Book
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), 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 confined | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bade | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bade | compound |
| 4 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 confined | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 priest | det |
| 6 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 confined | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 confined | aux:pass |
| 8 | confined | confine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 dungeon | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dungeon | det |
| 11 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 confined | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bade | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bade | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bade | nsubj |
| 15 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 confined | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 torn | aux:pass |
| 19 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 bade | acl:relcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 Book | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Book | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Book | det |
| 23 | Gospel | Gospel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Book | compound |
| 24 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 torn | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 confined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confine | infinitive · passive | the Tsar bade | a dungeon | the priest nsubj:pass | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in dungeon=Destination | |||
| 2 | bade | Tsar | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | tear out | infinitive · passive | bade | the Gospel Book | page nsubj:pass | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient book=Result |
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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