Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 111
Then the Tsar went home with grief in his groaning heart, and he told the Tsarítsa and the Tsarévich all the real truth, and they were afflicted; and they all wept together and resolved that something must be done, and that they must give up the Tsarévich.
Who acts: Tsar, garden · What happens: go, tell, afflict, weep, resolve, do · To what, where: groaning heart, real truth, Tsarítsa, TSAR, something, Tsarévich · 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, garden), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 grief | case |
| 7 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 heart | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 heart | nmod:poss |
| 10 | groaning | groaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heart | compound |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 told | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 told | nsubj |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Tsarítsa | det |
| 17 | Tsarítsa | Tsarítsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 told | iobj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Tsarévich | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Tsarévich | det |
| 20 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Tsarítsa | conj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 truth | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 truth | det |
| 23 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 truth | amod |
| 24 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 told | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 afflicted | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 afflicted | cc |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 afflicted | nsubj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 afflicted | aux:pass |
| 29 | afflicted | afflict | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 told | conj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 wept | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 wept | cc |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 wept | nsubj |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 wept | advmod |
| 34 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 35 | together | together | ADV | _ | 34 wept | advmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 resolved | cc |
| 37 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 wept | conj |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 done | mark |
| 39 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 42 done | nsubj |
| 40 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 done | aux |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 done | aux:pass |
| 42 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 resolved | advcl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 give | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 give | cc |
| 45 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 48 give | mark |
| 46 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 give | nsubj |
| 47 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 give | aux |
| 48 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 wept | conj |
| 49 | up | up | ADP | _ | 48 give | compound:prt |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 Tsarévich | det |
| 51 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 give | iobj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Tsar | garden's groaning heart | then | with grief; home property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with grief=Beneficiary | ||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | garden | all real truth | the Tsarítsa and the Tsarévich | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent tsarítsa=Recipient truth=Topic | |||
| 3 | afflict | past · passive | TSAR | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | weep | past | TSAR | together property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | resolve | past | TSAR not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | do | must · passive | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | give up | must | TSAR | the Tsarévich | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsarévich=Source |
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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