Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 83
And after they had feasted at the wedding he set about inviting all the Tsars and Tsarévichi, the Kings and the Korolévichi as his guests to his father and mother.
Who acts: boyárs, youth · What happens: feast, set, invite · To what, where: wedding, Tsars
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 (boyárs, youth), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 feasted | cc |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 feasted | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 feasted | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 feasted | aux |
| 5 | feasted | feast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 wedding | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wedding | det |
| 8 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feasted | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 set | nsubj |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wedding | acl:relcl |
| 11 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 12 inviting | mark |
| 12 | inviting | invite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 set | advcl |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 Tsars | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Tsars | det |
| 15 | Tsars | tsar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 inviting | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Tsarévichi | cc |
| 17 | Tsarévichi | Tsarévichi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Tsars | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Kings | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Kings | det |
| 20 | Kings | King | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 Tsarévichi | appos |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Korolévichi | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Korolévichi | det |
| 23 | Korolévichi | Korolévichi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Tsarévichi | conj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 guests | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 guests | nmod:poss |
| 26 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 inviting | obl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 father | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 father | nmod:poss |
| 29 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 guests | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 mother | cc |
| 31 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 father | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 feasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feast | past · perfect | boyárs = boyár | the wedding | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | set | past | youth | the wedding not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient wedding=Result | ||||
| 3 | invite | gerund | youth not said here | all Tsars and Tsarévichi and the Korolévichi | as youth's guests to youth's father and mother | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsar=Recipient |
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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