Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 76
“Very well; summon all the Tsars and Tsarévichi, all the Kings and Korolévichi, to see us wage an honourable holmgang to win your daughter.”
Who acts: you, us · What happens: summon, see, wage, win · To what, where: Tsars, us, honourable holmgang, daughter
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 (you, us), 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 summon | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 summon | advmod |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 summon | punct |
| 5 | summon | summon | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 Tsars | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Tsars | det |
| 8 | Tsars | tsar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 summon | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Tsarévichi | cc |
| 10 | Tsarévichi | Tsarévichi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Tsars | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Kings | punct |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 Kings | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Kings | det |
| 14 | Kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Tsars | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Korolévichi | cc |
| 16 | Korolévichi | Korolévichi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Kings | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 summon | conj |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 see | obj |
| 21 | wage | wage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 see | xcomp |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 holmgang | det |
| 23 | honourable | honourable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 holmgang | amod |
| 24 | holmgang | holmgang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wage | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 win | mark |
| 26 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 wage | advcl |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 28 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 win | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 summon | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 summon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon in a quote | imperative | you not said here | all Tsars and Tsarévichi and all Kings and Korolévichi | well property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsar=Recipient | |||
| 2 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wage in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | a honourable holmgang | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | win in a quote | to-infinitive | us not said here | your daughter | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Eventuality |
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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