Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 138
The knights brought the merchant’s daughter to their _izbá_[60] in the wood and said: “Stay with us as our sister, and become the mistress of the house.
Who acts: knights · What happens: bring, say, stay, become · To what, where: daughter, wood, mistress · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knights), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 knights | det |
| 2 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 merchant | det |
| 5 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 merchant | case |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 izbá | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 izbá | nmod:poss |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 izbá | punct |
| 11 | izbá | izbá | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 60 | punct |
| 13 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 14 60 | punct |
| 14 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 brought | obl |
| 15 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 14 60 | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 wood | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wood | det |
| 18 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 Stay | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Stay | punct |
| 23 | Stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | ccomp |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 us | case |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 Stay | obl |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 sister | case |
| 27 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 sister | nmod:poss |
| 28 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Stay | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 become | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 become | cc |
| 31 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 Stay | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 mistress | det |
| 33 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 become | xcomp |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 house | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 house | det |
| 36 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 mistress | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the knights | the merchant's daughter | the wood | to merchant's izbá; 60 obl | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to izbá=Destination | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the knights not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stay in a quote | infinitive | with us; as our sister | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with we=Location | |||||
| 4 | become in a quote | infinitive | the mistress of the house | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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