Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 87
But, however many slanders she might think of to tell him, Iván Tsarévich never believed her, but held Katomá fast.
Who acts: many slanders, Iván · What happens: think, tell, not believe, hold · To what, where: Katomá, wife · 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 (many slanders, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 think | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 slanders | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 slanders | advmod |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 slanders | amod |
| 5 | slanders | slander | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 think | nsubj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 think | nsubj |
| 7 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | aux |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 tell | mark |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 tell | mark |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 think | ccomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | iobj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 believed | punct |
| 14 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 believed | nsubj |
| 15 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Iván | flat |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 believed | advmod |
| 17 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | advcl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 believed | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 held | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 held | cc |
| 21 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | advcl |
| 22 | Katomá | Katomá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 held | obj |
| 23 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 held | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | might | many slanders | wife nsubj | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Katomá | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | not believe | past | Iván | wife | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hold | past | many slanders not said here | Katomá | fast property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent katomá=Theme |
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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