Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 74
They received him into their palace and they gave him a great feast, and set him on his way.
Who acts: MÚROMETS · What happens: receive, give, set · To what, where: host, palace, great feast, way
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 received | nsubj |
| 2 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 received | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 palace | nmod:poss |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 received | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gave | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 received | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 feast | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feast | amod |
| 13 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 set | cc |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 gave | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 set | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 way | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 way | nmod:poss |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | MÚROMETS = múromet | host | MÚROMETS's palace | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past | MÚROMETS = múromet | a great feast | host | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient feast=Theme | |||
| 3 | set | infinitive | MÚROMETS = múromet not said here | host | host's way | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on way=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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