Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 81
Then all the royal _boyárs_ ran up, took the doughty youth into their hands and led him into the palace.
Who acts: royal boyárs · What happens: run up, take, lead · To what, where: doughty youth, hands, youth, palace
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 (royal boyárs), 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 | 8 ran | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 boyárs | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boyárs | det |
| 4 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boyárs | amod |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 royal | punct |
| 6 | boyárs | boyár | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ran | nsubj |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 boyárs | punct |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 ran | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ran | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 youth | det |
| 13 | doughty | doughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 youth | amod |
| 14 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 hands | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hands | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 took | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 led | cc |
| 19 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 led | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 palace | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 palace | det |
| 23 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 led | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | past | all royal boyárs | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | all royal boyárs not said here | the doughty youth | boyárs's hands | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent youth=Theme into hand=Destination | |||
| 3 | lead | past | all royal boyárs not said here | youth | the palace | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into palace=Destination |
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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