Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 31
Then the Tsar assembled five thousand children, who were to mollify the tanner with their bitter tears.
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: assemble, mollify · To what, where: thousand children, tanner
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 (Tsar), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 assembled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 assembled | nsubj |
| 4 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 thousand | compound |
| 6 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 children | nummod |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 assembled | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mollify | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 mollify | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 mollify | aux |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 mollify | mark |
| 12 | mollify | mollify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 assembled | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tanner | det |
| 14 | tanner | tanner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mollify | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 tears | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 tears | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tears | amod |
| 18 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 mollify | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 assembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | past | the Tsar | thousand children | then | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent child=Theme | |||
| 2 | mollify | past | the tanner | with children's bitter tears; who nsubj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tanner=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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