Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 128
At the banquet, the King gave them the place of honour, and they begged he would honour them with a visit.
Who acts: King, brothers · What happens: give, beg, honour · To what, where: place, brothers, banquet · 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 (King, brothers), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 banquet | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 banquet | det |
| 3 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 banquet | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | iobj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 honour | case |
| 12 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 place | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 begged | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 begged | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 begged | nsubj |
| 16 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gave | conj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 honour | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 honour | aux |
| 19 | honour | honour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 begged | ccomp |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 honour | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 visit | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 visit | det |
| 23 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 honour | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the King | the place of honour | brothers = brother | the banquet | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Recipient place=Theme at banquet=Asset | ||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | brothers = brother | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | honour | would | King | brothers = brother | with a visit | tree rules |
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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