Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 53

Once in the famous city of Múrom[47] in the village of Karachárovo, a peasant lived who was called Iván Timoféyevich; he had one beloved son, Ilyá Múromets.

Who acts: peasant · What happens: live, call, have · To what, where: one beloved son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 lived	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 city	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 city	det
4	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 city	amod
5	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Múrom	case
7	Múrom	Múrom	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 city	nmod
8	[	[	PUNCT	_	9 47	punct
9	47	47	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 Múrom	appos
10	]	]	PUNCT	_	9 47	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 village	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 village	det
13	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 city	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Karachárovo	case
15	Karachárovo	Karachárovo	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 village	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 peasant	det
18	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lived	nsubj
19	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 called	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 called	aux:pass
22	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 lived	ccomp
23	Iván	Iván	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 called	xcomp
24	Timoféyevich	Timoféyevich	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Iván	flat
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lived	conj
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 son	nummod
29	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 son	amod
30	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Múromets	punct
32	Ilyá	Ilyá	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Múromets	compound
33	Múromets	Múromet	PROPN	Number=Plur	30 son	appos
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	live	past	a peasant		once property	tree rules
2	call	past · passive			who nsubj:pass; Iván xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	have	past	peasant	one beloved son		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 53

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 53