Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 68
And Ilyá Múromets set out on the road; when he came under the walls of the city of Sébezh he saw three Tsarévichi from foreign parts, who had a host of thirty thousand men; they wished to capture the city of Sébezh and to take the Tsar of Sébezh prisoner.
Who acts: Ilyá Múromets, Ilyá, three foreign parts, MÚROMETS · What happens: set out, come, see, have, wish, capture · To what, where: road, walls, three foreign parts, host, city, Tsar
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 (Ilyá Múromets, Ilyá, three foreign parts, MÚROMETS), 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 | _ | 4 set | cc |
| 2 | Ilyá | Ilyá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Múromets | compound |
| 3 | Múromets | múromet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 road | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 road | det |
| 8 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 came | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 saw | advcl |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 walls | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 walls | det |
| 15 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 came | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 city | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 city | det |
| 18 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walls | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Sébezh | case |
| 20 | Sébezh | Sébezh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 city | nmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | conj |
| 23 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 parts | nummod |
| 24 | Tsarévichi | Tsarévichi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 parts | nsubj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 parts | case |
| 26 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 parts | amod |
| 27 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 saw | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 had | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 parts | acl:relcl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 host | det |
| 32 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 had | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 men | case |
| 34 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 thousand | compound |
| 35 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 men | nummod |
| 36 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 host | nmod |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 wished | punct |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 wished | nsubj |
| 39 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 capture | mark |
| 41 | capture | capture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 wished | xcomp |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 city | det |
| 43 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 capture | obj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 Sébezh | case |
| 45 | Sébezh | Sébezh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 city | nmod |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 take | cc |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 take | mark |
| 48 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 capture | conj |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 Tsar | det |
| 50 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 take | obj |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 prisoner | case |
| 52 | Sébezh | Sébezh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 prisoner | compound |
| 53 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 Tsar | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | Ilyá Múromets | the road | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Ilyá | the walls of the city of Sébezh | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under wall=Location | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Ilyá | three foreign parts Tsarévichi | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer part=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | have | past | three foreign parts Tsarévichi | a host of thousand men | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=Patient | ||||
| 5 | wish | past | MÚROMETS = múromet | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | capture not said to happen | to-infinitive | MÚROMETS = múromet not said here | the city of Sébezh | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme | ||||
| 7 | take | to-infinitive | MÚROMETS = múromet not said here | the Tsar of Sébezh prisoner | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument tsar=Destination |
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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