Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 2
They had a son called Iván Tsarévich, and the son had an attendant who was called Katomá Dyádka[57] of the oaken-cap.
Who acts: Tsar, son · What happens: have, call · To what, where: son, attendant · 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 (Tsar, son), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 son | det |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 son | acl |
| 6 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 7 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Iván | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 son | det |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 attendant | det |
| 14 | attendant | attendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 called | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 called | aux:pass |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 attendant | acl |
| 18 | Katomá | Katomá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 called | xcomp |
| 19 | Dyádka | Dyádka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Katomá | flat |
| 20 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 21 57 | punct |
| 21 | 57 | 57 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 called | parataxis |
| 22 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 21 57 | punct |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 cap | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 cap | det |
| 25 | oaken | oaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 cap | amod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 oaken | punct |
| 27 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 57 | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Tsar | a son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a son not said here | Iván xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the son | a attendant | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attendant=Patient | ||||
| 4 | call speech: assert | past · passive | a attendant | Katomá xcomp; 57 of the oaken cap parataxis | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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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