Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 88
And the third time the envoys came, saying that the Sea Tsar was angry: “Why are you so long making ready?”
Who acts: third time, Sea Tsar, you · What happens: come, say, be, make · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (third time, Sea Tsar, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 came | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 envoys | det |
| 6 | envoys | envoy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 time | conj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saying | punct |
| 9 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 came | advcl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 angry | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Tsar | det |
| 12 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Tsar | compound |
| 13 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 angry | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 angry | cop |
| 15 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 saying | ccomp |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 making | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 making | punct |
| 18 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 making | advmod |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 making | aux |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 making | nsubj |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 long | advmod |
| 22 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 making | advmod |
| 23 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 came | advcl |
| 24 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 making | xcomp |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 ready | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 making | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the third time and the envoys | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | gerund | the third time and the envoys not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the Sea Tsar | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | present · progressive | you | long, ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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