Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 62
The Sea Tsar has bidden me in a single night build a church of white wax.”
Who acts: Sea Tsar · What happens: bid, build · To what, where: me, church
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 2 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Tsar | compound |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bidden | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bidden | aux |
| 5 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 build | nsubj:outer |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bidden | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 night | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 night | det |
| 9 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 night | amod |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bidden | obl |
| 11 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 church | det |
| 13 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 build | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 wax | case |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wax | amod |
| 16 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 church | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 build | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 build | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | present · perfect | the Sea Tsar | me | night | tree rules | |||
| 2 | build | infinitive | a church of white wax | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset church=Product |
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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