Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 127
So the Sea Tsar galloped back to his own kingdom under the seas, and Vasilísa the Wise with Iván Tsarévich waited a while and then returned to Sacred Russia.
Who acts: Sea Tsar, Iván · What happens: gallop back, wait, return · To what, where: own kingdom, Sacred Russia
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 (Sea Tsar, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 galloped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Tsar | compound |
| 4 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 galloped | nsubj |
| 5 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 galloped | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 kingdom | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 kingdom | amod |
| 10 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 galloped | obl |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 seas | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 seas | det |
| 13 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 kingdom | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Wise | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Wise | cc |
| 16 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Wise | nsubj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Wise | det |
| 18 | Wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 galloped | parataxis |
| 19 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 22 waited | mark |
| 20 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 waited | nsubj |
| 21 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Iván | flat |
| 22 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Wise | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 while | det |
| 24 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 waited | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 returned | cc |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 returned | advmod |
| 27 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 waited | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 Russia | case |
| 29 | Sacred | Sacred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Russia | compound |
| 30 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 returned | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 galloped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gallop back | past | the Sea Tsar | Tsar's own kingdom under the seas | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to kingdom=Destination | ||||
| 2 | wait | past | Iván | while | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | return | past | Iván not said here | Sacred Russia | then | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to russia=Result |
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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