Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 61

And the shepherds spake: “Wicked boaster! how darest thou call thyself the Tsar, for we have seen Tsar Angéy, who has just ridden into his city with five youths!”

Who acts: shepherds spake, we, Tsar · What happens: dare, call, see, ride · To what, where: thyself, Tsar, city · 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 (shepherds spake, we, 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	_	4 spake	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shepherds	det
3	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spake	compound
4	spake	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 call	nsubj:outer
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 boaster	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 boaster	punct
7	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boaster	amod
8	boaster	boaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 call	nsubj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 boaster	punct
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 darest	advmod
11	darest	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 call	advcl
12	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 call	nsubj
13	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	thyself	thyself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch	13 call	obj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Tsar	det
16	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 call	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seen	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 seen	mark
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 seen	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 seen	aux
21	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 call	advcl
22	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 seen	obj
23	Angéy	Angéy	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Tsar	flat
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ridden	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 ridden	nsubj
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 ridden	aux
27	just	just	ADV	_	28 ridden	advmod
28	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 Tsar	acl
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 city	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 city	nmod:poss
31	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ridden	obl
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 youths	case
33	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 youths	nummod
34	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 city	nmod
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 ridden	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dare in a quote	present	shepherds spake not said here				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	call in a quote	infinitive	shepherds spake	thyself		Wicked boaster nsubj; thou nsubj; the Tsar obj	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent thyself=Theme tsar=Result
3	see in a quote	present · perfect	we	Tsar			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tsar=Stimulus
4	ride in a quote	present · perfect	Tsar		Tsar's city with five youths		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into city=Trajectory

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 61

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 61