Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 6
Iván Tsarévich buried his parents, heeded their advice, and always took counsel with Katomá before undertaking any enterprise.
Who acts: Iván · What happens: bury, heed, take, undertake · To what, where: parents, advice, counsel, enterprise
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 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 buried | nsubj |
| 2 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Iván | flat |
| 3 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 parents | nmod:poss |
| 5 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 buried | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 heeded | punct |
| 7 | heeded | heed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 buried | conj |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 advice | nmod:poss |
| 9 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heeded | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 took | advmod |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 buried | conj |
| 14 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 Katomá | case |
| 16 | Katomá | Katomá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obl |
| 17 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 18 undertaking | mark |
| 18 | undertaking | undertake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 took | advcl |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 enterprise | det |
| 20 | enterprise | enterprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 undertaking | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 buried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | past | Iván | Iván's parents | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | heed | past | Iván not said here | Tsar's advice | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past | Iván not said here | counsel | with Katomá; always property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | |||
| 4 | undertake | gerund | Iván not said here | any enterprise | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enterprise=Eventuality |
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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