Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 29

So the Tsar summoned all the _boyárs_ and the senators from every part of the kingdom to show them the youth, but none of them acknowledged that he was the father.

Who acts: Tsar, none, boy · What happens: summon, show, acknowledge, be · To what, where: boyárs, part, father

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar, none, boy), 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 summoned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Tsar	det
3	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 summoned	nsubj
4	summoned	summon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 boyárs	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boyárs	det
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 boyárs	punct
8	boyárs	boyár	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 summoned	obj
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 boyárs	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 senators	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 senators	det
12	senators	senator	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 boyárs	conj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 part	case
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 part	det
15	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 summoned	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 kingdom	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 kingdom	det
18	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 part	nmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 show	mark
20	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 summoned	advcl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 show	obj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 youth	det
23	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 show	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 acknowledged	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 acknowledged	cc
26	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	29 acknowledged	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 none	nmod
29	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 summoned	conj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 father	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 father	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 father	cop
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 father	det
34	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 acknowledged	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 summoned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	summon	past	the Tsar	all boyárs and the senators	every part of the kingdom		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boyár=Recipient
2	show	to-infinitive	the Tsar not said here	boyárs = boyár		the youth obj	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient youth=Topic
3	acknowledge	past	none of boyárs				vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	boy	the father			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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 29

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 29