Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 8
The Tsarévich bade farewell to Bába Yagá, went to the spot she named on the seashore, and he hid himself behind the bushes.
Who acts: Tsarévich bade farewell, farewell, Tsarévich · What happens: go, name, hide · To what, where: spot, seashore, Tsarévich, bushes
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 (Tsarévich bade farewell, farewell, Tsarévich), 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 | 4 farewell | det |
| 2 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 farewell | compound |
| 3 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 farewell | compound |
| 4 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Bába | case |
| 6 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 farewell | nmod |
| 7 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Bába | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 farewell | punct |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 spot | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spot | det |
| 12 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 named | nsubj |
| 14 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 spot | acl:relcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 seashore | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 seashore | det |
| 17 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 named | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hid | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hid | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hid | nsubj |
| 21 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 hid | obj |
| 23 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 25 bushes | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bushes | det |
| 25 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hid | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Tsarévich bade farewell to Bába | the spot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to spot=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | name | participle | farewell | the spot not said here | the seashore | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme | |||
| 3 | hide | past | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | the bushes | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient behind bush=Location |
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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