Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 93
When Ilyá arrived at the city of Kíev, he went straight to the Prince’s courtyard, entered the white stone palace, prayed to God and did homage to the Prince.
Who acts: Ilyá · What happens: arrive, go, enter, pray, do · To what, where: city, courtyard, white stone palace, God, homage
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | Ilyá | Ilyá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | advcl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Kíev | case |
| 8 | Kíev | Kíev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 city | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 17 courtyard | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 courtyard | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Prince | det |
| 15 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 courtyard | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Prince | case |
| 17 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 entered | punct |
| 19 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 palace | det |
| 21 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 palace | amod |
| 22 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 palace | compound |
| 23 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 entered | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 prayed | punct |
| 25 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 God | case |
| 27 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 prayed | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 did | cc |
| 29 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 prayed | conj |
| 30 | homage | homage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 did | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 Prince | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Prince | det |
| 33 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 did | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Ilyá | the city of Kíev | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Ilyá | the Prince's courtyard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to courtyard=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | Ilyá not said here | the white stone palace | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination | ||||
| 4 | pray | past | Ilyá not said here | God | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 5 | do | past | Ilyá not said here | homage | to the Prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homage=Eventuality |
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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