Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 121
After this great combat he rode back to the town wall and said, “Your kingly Majesty, has my service pleased you?”
Who acts: Donotknow, my · What happens: ride back, say, have, service · To what, where: town wall · 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 (Donotknow, my), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 combat | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 combat | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 combat | amod |
| 4 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rode | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rode | nsubj |
| 6 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 rode | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 wall | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wall | det |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wall | compound |
| 11 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rode | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rode | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Majesty | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Majesty | punct |
| 16 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 17 | kingly | kingly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Majesty | amod |
| 18 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 has | punct |
| 20 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rode | conj |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 service | nmod:poss |
| 22 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pleased | nsubj |
| 23 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 has | xcomp |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 pleased | nsubj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 has | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride back | past | Donotknow | the town wall | after this great combat | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to wall=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Donotknow not said here | Your kingly Majesty ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | Donotknow not said here | pleased property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | service in a quote | my | nom service «act transitive»: poss=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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