Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 84
And the Tsar spake to her: “I have made a covenant with God that for three years I will not sleep with thee nor share thy bed.”
Who acts: Tsarítsa · What happens: make, not sleep, share · To what, where: covenant, bed, Tsar spake
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 (Tsarítsa), 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 | 4 spake | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spake | compound |
| 4 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spake | nmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 made | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 spake | acl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 covenant | det |
| 13 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 God | case |
| 15 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 covenant | nmod |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 sleep | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 years | case |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 years | nummod |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sleep | obl |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 sleep | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 sleep | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 sleep | advmod |
| 23 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 covenant | acl:relcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 thee | case |
| 25 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 sleep | obl |
| 26 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 27 share | cc |
| 27 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 sleep | conj |
| 28 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 bed | nmod:poss |
| 29 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 share | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spake | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | present · perfect | the Tsarítsa = tsarítsa | a covenant | with God | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent covenant=Product | |||
| 2 | not sleep in a quote | future | the Tsarítsa = tsarítsa | a covenant | year | with thee | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||
| 3 | share in a quote | present | the Tsarítsa = tsarítsa not said here | thy bed | 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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