Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 91
“Why are you making a vain quest?” the Tsars and Tsarévichi, the Kings and Korolévichi answered; “this would be an unguestly act.
Who acts: you, Tsars, this · What happens: make, answer, be · To what, where: vain quest, unguestly act · 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 (you, Tsars, this), 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 making | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 making | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 making | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 making | nsubj |
| 5 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 quest | det |
| 7 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 quest | amod |
| 8 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 making | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 making | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 making | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Tsars | det |
| 12 | Tsars | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 answered | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Tsarévichi | cc |
| 14 | Tsarévichi | Tsarévichi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Tsars | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Kings | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Kings | det |
| 17 | Kings | King | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 Tsarévichi | appos |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Korolévichi | cc |
| 19 | Korolévichi | Korolévichi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Tsarévichi | conj |
| 20 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 making | parataxis |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 making | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 act | punct |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 act | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 act | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 act | cop |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 act | det |
| 27 | unguestly | unguestly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 act | amod |
| 28 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 making | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 making | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | present · progressive | you | a vain quest | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: ask | past | the Tsars and Tsarévichi and Korolévichi | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | would | this | a unguestly act | 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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