Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 23
Good Prince Vladímir had many henchmen and serfs in the city of Kíev, and amongst them there was Danílo the Unfortunate, the noble.
Who acts: Good Vladímir · What happens: have, be · To what, where: many henchmen, city, Danílo
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good Vladímir), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Vladímir | amod |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Vladímir | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Vladímir | Vladímir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 henchmen | amod |
| 6 | henchmen | henchman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 serfs | cc |
| 8 | serfs | serf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 henchmen | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 city | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 city | det |
| 11 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Kíev | case |
| 13 | Kíev | Kíev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 city | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 was | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 was | cc |
| 16 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 was | obl |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 was | expl |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Danílo | cop |
| 20 | Danílo | Danílo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Unfortunate | det |
| 22 | Unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Danílo | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 noble | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 noble | det |
| 25 | noble | noble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Danílo | appos |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Good Vladímir Prince | many henchmen and serfs | the city of Kíev | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent henchman=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Danílo | the noble appos | tree rules |
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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