Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 20
Then Iván Tsarévich begged Katomá Oaken-cap to fare there with him, and pledged him his word of honour he would obey him in joy and sorrow.
Who acts: Iván · What happens: beg, fare, pledge, obey, word · To what, where: Katomá, Iván, joy, honour
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 (Iván), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 begged | advmod |
| 2 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Iván | flat |
| 4 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Katomá | Katomá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 begged | obj |
| 6 | Oaken | Oaken | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Katomá | flat |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 cap | punct |
| 8 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Katomá | appos |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 fare | mark |
| 10 | fare | fare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 begged | advcl |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 fare | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fare | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pledged | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pledged | cc |
| 16 | pledged | pledge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 begged | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pledged | obj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 word | nmod:poss |
| 19 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pledged | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 honour | case |
| 21 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 word | nmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 obey | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 obey | aux |
| 24 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 pledged | ccomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 obey | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 joy | case |
| 27 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 obey | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sorrow | cc |
| 29 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 joy | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | Iván | Katomá | then | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent katomá=Recipient | |||
| 2 | fare | to-infinitive | Iván not said here | there | with Iván | tree rules | |||
| 3 | pledge | past | Iván not said here | Iván | Iván's word of honour obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | obey | would | Iván | Katomá | joy and sorrow | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 5 | word | Iván | honour | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=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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