Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 36
_” Then they told the Emperor of this, and they summoned the poor man into the palace, and the Tsar began to inquire of him, “Acknowledge on oath, is this your boy?”
Who acts: Tyátya, Tsar · What happens: tell, summon, begin, inquire, acknowledge, be · To what, where: Emperor, poor man, palace, oath, boy · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tyátya, 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
| 2 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 3 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 told | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 told | nsubj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 boy | parataxis |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Emperor | det |
| 7 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 told | iobj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 this | case |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 Emperor | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 summoned | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 summoned | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 summoned | nsubj |
| 13 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 summoned | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 palace | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 palace | det |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 summoned | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 began | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 began | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Tsar | det |
| 23 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 began | nsubj |
| 24 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 inquire | mark |
| 26 | inquire | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 began | xcomp |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 inquire | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Acknowledge | punct |
| 30 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 Acknowledge | punct |
| 31 | Acknowledge | acknowledge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 inquire | conj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 oath | case |
| 33 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Acknowledge | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 boy | cop |
| 36 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 boy | det |
| 37 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 boy | nmod:poss |
| 38 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 39 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 38 boy | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 boy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | Tyátya | the Emperor of this | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent emperor=Recipient | |||
| 2 | summon in a quote | past | Tyátya | the poor man | the palace | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | |||
| 3 | begin in a quote | past | the Tsar | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | inquire speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | the Tsar not said here | of man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | acknowledge | infinitive | the Tsar not said here | oath | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | your boy | your nmod:poss | 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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