Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 72
Then the King said to him, “You are not the only suitor for my daughter; there is another suitor, a mighty knight.
Who acts: King, youth, suitor · What happens: say, not be, be · To what, where: youth, only suitor · 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 (King, youth, suitor), 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 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 suitor | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 suitor | punct |
| 9 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 suitor | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 suitor | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 suitor | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 suitor | det |
| 13 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 suitor | amod |
| 14 | suitor | suitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 daughter | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 suitor | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 is | punct |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 is | expl |
| 20 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 suitor | det |
| 22 | suitor | suitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 is | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 knight | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 knight | det |
| 25 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 knight | amod |
| 26 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 suitor | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | youth | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | youth | the only suitor | for my daughter | tree rules | |||
| 3 | does in a quote | present | another suitor and a mighty knight | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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