Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 123
“This is the Sea Tsar himself who is galloping.”
Who acts: This, Sea Tsar · What happens: be, gallop · To what, where: Sea Tsar
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Sea Tsar), 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 | _ | 10 galloping | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 Tsar | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Tsar | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tsar | det |
| 5 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Tsar | compound |
| 6 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 galloping | nsubj |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 Tsar | nmod |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 galloping | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 galloping | aux |
| 10 | galloping | gallop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 galloping | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 galloping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | the Sea Tsar | Tsar nmod | tree rules | |||
| 2 | gallop in a quote | present · progressive | the Sea Tsar | who nsubj | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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