Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 31
Iván the merchant’s son lived on in his kingdom for good and lived all for happiness, took his own father to stay with him, but consigned his stepmother to punishment.
Who acts: Iván · What happens: live on, live, take, stay, consign · To what, where: kingdom, own father, stepmother
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 (Iván), 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 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 merchant | det |
| 3 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 merchant | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Iván | appos |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 lived | compound:prt |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 kingdom | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 10 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 good | case |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 kingdom | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lived | cc |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | conj |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 lived | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 happiness | case |
| 17 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | parataxis |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 father | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 father | amod |
| 22 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 stay | mark |
| 24 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 took | advcl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 stay | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 consigned | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 consigned | cc |
| 29 | consigned | consign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 took | conj |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 31 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 consigned | obj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 punishment | case |
| 33 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 consigned | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live on | past | Iván | son's kingdom for good | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kingdom=Location | ||||
| 2 | live | past | Iván not said here | for happiness; all property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past | son's own father | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument father=Destination | |||||
| 4 | stay | to-infinitive | with son | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location | |||||
| 5 | consign | past | son's stepmother | to punishment | tree rules |
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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