Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 53
So Iván Tsarévich called Katomá, and said: “Come into the stable and command the grooms to bring the horse out; ride it, and to-morrow I will go to church on it.”
Who acts: Iván · What happens: call, say, come, command, bring out, ride · To what, where: Katomá, stable, grooms, horse, morrow · 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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 called | advmod |
| 2 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | nsubj |
| 3 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Iván | flat |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Katomá | Katomá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | conj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Come | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Come | punct |
| 11 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 stable | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stable | det |
| 14 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Come | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 command | cc |
| 16 | command | command | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Come | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 grooms | det |
| 18 | grooms | groom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 command | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 bring | mark |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 command | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 horse | det |
| 22 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bring | obj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 bring | compound:prt |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 ride | punct |
| 25 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | parataxis |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 ride | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 go | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 go | cc |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 morrow | case |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 to | punct |
| 31 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 go | obl |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 go | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 go | aux |
| 34 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 ride | parataxis |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 church | case |
| 36 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 go | obl |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 it | case |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 go | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 go | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 ride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past | Iván | Katomá | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Iván not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | infinitive | the stable | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into stable=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | command in a quote | infinitive | the grooms | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent groom=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bring out in a quote | to-infinitive | the horse | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | |||||
| 6 | ride in a quote | infinitive | horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location | |||||
| 7 | go in a quote | future | Iván | morrow | to church; on horse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location to church=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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