Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 55
Then he made himself the trappings of war and a lance of steel, and got himself a good steed, a knightly horse; he then went up to his mother and father and asked their blessing.
Who acts: peasant, mother · What happens: make, get, go up, ask, bless · To what, where: peasant, blessing
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, mother), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 trappings | det |
| 6 | trappings | trapping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 war | case |
| 8 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trappings | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lance | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lance | det |
| 11 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 war | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 steel | case |
| 13 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lance | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 got | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 got | cc |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 got | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 steed | det |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 steed | amod |
| 20 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 horse | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 horse | det |
| 23 | knightly | knightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 horse | amod |
| 24 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 steed | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 went | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 went | nsubj |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 went | advmod |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 went | compound:prt |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 mother | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 mother | nmod:poss |
| 32 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 went | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 father | cc |
| 34 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 mother | conj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 asked | cc |
| 36 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 went | conj |
| 37 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 38 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 asked | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | peasant | peasant | then | the trappings of war and a lance of steel obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary trapping=Product | ||
| 2 | get | past | peasant not said here | peasant | a good steed and a knightly horse obj | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary steed=Theme | |||
| 3 | go up | past | peasant | then | to peasant's mother and father | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | peasant not said here | mother's blessing | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent blessing=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | bless | mother | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=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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