Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 105
This did not suit the King at all, so he answered the Arab prince in this wise, “Do you begin the war, and it shall go as God shall will.”
Who acts: This, King, Arab prince, war · What happens: not suit, answer, begin, go · To what, where: King, all, Arab prince, wise, war · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, King, Arab prince, war), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 suit | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 suit | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 suit | advmod |
| 4 | suit | suit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 suit | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 suit | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 answered | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 answered | nsubj |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 suit | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 14 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 prince | amod |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 wise | case |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 wise | nsubj |
| 18 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 answered | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 begin | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 begin | punct |
| 21 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 begin | aux |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 begin | nsubj |
| 23 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 answered | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 war | det |
| 25 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 begin | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 go | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 go | cc |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 go | nsubj |
| 29 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 go | aux |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 begin | conj |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 God | case |
| 32 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 go | obl |
| 33 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 will | aux |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 go | advcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 suit | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 suit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not suit | past · do-support | This | the King | all | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | King | the Arab prince | wise this | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | begin in a quote | present · do-support | the Arab prince = prince | the war | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | shall | war | as God | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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