Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 93
May-be long, may-be short, they at last reached a capital city, went to the King with gifts, and informed him of Donotknow.
Who acts: May, foal · What happens: be, reach, go, inform · To what, where: capital city, King
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 (May, foal), 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 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 short | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 long | cop |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 May | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 May | punct |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 short | aux |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 short | punct |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 short | cop |
| 9 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reached | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 reached | nsubj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 last | case |
| 13 | last | last | ADV | _ | 14 reached | obl |
| 14 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 short | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 city | det |
| 16 | capital | capital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 city | amod |
| 17 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 reached | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 King | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 King | det |
| 22 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 gifts | case |
| 24 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 went | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 informed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 informed | cc |
| 27 | informed | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 short | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 informed | iobj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Donotknow | case |
| 30 | Donotknow | Donotknow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 informed | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 short | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | long property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | may | May | short property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | foal | a capital city | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent city=Theme at last=Asset | ||||
| 4 | go | past | foal not said here | to the King; with gifts | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | inform speech: other | past | May not said here | King | of Donotknow | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of donotknow=Topic |
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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