Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 31
So the soldier returned, had the portrait painted, which was feature for feature, unshaved, unwashed, uncombed, his nose unwiped, and in his old garb, and sent it to the Tsar.
Who acts: soldier, portrait · What happens: return, have, paint, be, uncomb, send · To what, where: portrait, feature, Tsar
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, portrait), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 returned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 returned | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 portrait | det |
| 8 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 portrait | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 feature | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 feature | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 feature | cop |
| 13 | feature | feature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 portrait | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 feature | case |
| 15 | feature | feature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feature | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 unshaved | punct |
| 17 | unshaved | unshaved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feature | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 unwashed | punct |
| 19 | unwashed | unwashed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 unshaved | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 uncombed | punct |
| 21 | uncombed | uncomb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 unshaved | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 nose | punct |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 nose | nmod:poss |
| 24 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 portrait | conj |
| 25 | unwiped | unwiped | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 nose | amod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 garb | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 garb | cc |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 garb | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 garb | nmod:poss |
| 30 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 garb | amod |
| 31 | garb | garb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sent | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 sent | cc |
| 34 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 returned | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 sent | obj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 Tsar | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Tsar | det |
| 38 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 sent | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the soldier | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | the soldier not said here | the portrait and feature and soldier's nose | soldier's old garb conj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portrait=Patient | |||
| 3 | paint | participle | the portrait and feature and soldier's nose not said here | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | the portrait and feature and soldier's nose | feature | for feature | tree rules | |||
| 5 | uncomb | participle | the portrait and feature and soldier's nose not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | send | past | the soldier not said here | portrait | the Tsar | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to tsar=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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