Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 99
At this time the Tsar was holding a mighty feast, and he bade the poor be summoned into the palace, bade them be fed sufficiently, and he bade the food of the poor men be taken into the Tsar’s palace and put into a special room.
Who acts: Tsar, bade · What happens: hold, bade, summon, feed, take, put · To what, where: mighty feast, poor, palace, men, food, special room
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, bade), 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 | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 holding | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Tsar | det |
| 5 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 holding | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 holding | aux |
| 7 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 feast | det |
| 9 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 feast | amod |
| 10 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 holding | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bade | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bade | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bade | nsubj |
| 14 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 holding | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 poor | det |
| 16 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 summoned | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 summoned | aux:pass |
| 18 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 bade | ccomp |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 palace | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 palace | det |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 summoned | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bade | punct |
| 23 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 palace | appos |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 fed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 fed | aux:pass |
| 26 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 bade | acl:relcl |
| 27 | sufficiently | sufficiently | ADV | _ | 26 fed | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 bade | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 bade | cc |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 bade | nsubj |
| 31 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 bade | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 food | det |
| 33 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 men | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 men | det |
| 36 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 men | amod |
| 37 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 food | nmod |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 taken | aux:pass |
| 39 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 bade | parataxis |
| 40 | into | into | ADP | _ | 44 palace | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Tsar | det |
| 42 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 palace | nmod:poss |
| 43 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 42 Tsar | case |
| 44 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 taken | obl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 put | cc |
| 46 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 taken | conj |
| 47 | into | into | ADP | _ | 50 room | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 room | det |
| 49 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 room | amod |
| 50 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 put | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 holding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past · progressive | the Tsar | a mighty feast | time | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme | |||
| 2 | bade | past | Tsar | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | summon | infinitive · passive | the poor | the palace | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | feed | infinitive · passive | bade not said here | men = man | sufficiently property | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 5 | bade | past | Tsar | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | take | infinitive · passive | the food of the poor men | the Tsar's palace | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into palace=Destination | ||||
| 7 | put | participle | a special room | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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