Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 1
So Ilyá Múromets changed into the beggar’s dress and rode straight back to the palace of the Prince, and cried out in a knightly voice: “Hail to thee, Prince of Kíev! give me, a wandering beggar, alms.”
Who acts: Ilyá Múromets, Hail · What happens: change, ride, cry out, give, wonder · To what, where: dress, palace, knightly voice, wandering beggar, Ilyá Múromets · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. 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, Hail), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 changed | advmod |
| 2 | Ilyá | Ilyá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Múromets | compound |
| 3 | Múromets | múromet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 changed | nsubj |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 dress | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beggar | det |
| 7 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dress | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 beggar | case |
| 9 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rode | cc |
| 11 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 changed | conj |
| 12 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 13 back | advmod |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 rode | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 palace | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 palace | det |
| 16 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rode | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Prince | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Prince | det |
| 19 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 palace | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 cried | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 cried | cc |
| 22 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 changed | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 cried | compound:prt |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 voice | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 voice | det |
| 26 | knightly | knightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 voice | amod |
| 27 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cried | obl |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 Hail | punct |
| 29 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Hail | punct |
| 30 | Hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 give | nsubj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 thee | case |
| 32 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 Hail | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Prince | punct |
| 34 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Hail | appos |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Kíev | case |
| 36 | Kíev | Kíev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Prince | nmod |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 30 Hail | punct |
| 38 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 cried | ccomp |
| 39 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 give | iobj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 beggar | punct |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 beggar | det |
| 42 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 43 beggar | amod |
| 43 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 give | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 alms | punct |
| 45 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 beggar | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | Ilyá Múromets | into the beggar's dress result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into dress=Result | ||||
| 2 | ride | past | Ilyá Múromets not said here | the palace of the Prince | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to palace=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | Ilyá Múromets not said here | a knightly voice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | infinitive | Hail to thee | a wandering beggar and alms | Ilyá Múromets = múromet | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 5 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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