Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 104
“Tsar my master,” said the Tsarítsa, “why do you weep such bitter tears?”
Who acts: Tsar, you · What happens: say, weep · To what, where: such bitter tears · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar, you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 master | nmod:poss |
| 4 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tsar | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tsar | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tsar | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Tsarítsa | det |
| 9 | Tsarítsa | Tsarítsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 weep | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 weep | punct |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 weep | advmod |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 weep | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 weep | nsubj |
| 15 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tears | amod |
| 17 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tears | amod |
| 18 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 weep | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 weep | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 weep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Tsar | the Tsarítsa nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | weep in a quote | present · do-support | you | such bitter tears | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=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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