Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 25
On the eve of Easter Sunday Prince Vladímir summoned Danílo the Unfortunate, and he gave him eighty score of sable skins, and he bade him sew a _shúba_[7] for the feast: the sable skins were not prepared, and the buttons had not been moulded, and the buttonholes had not been made.
Who acts: DANÍLO · What happens: summon, give, bade, sew, not prepare, not mould · To what, where: Danílo, eve, eighty score, Prince, shúba, sable skins
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 (DANÍLO), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 eve | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eve | det |
| 3 | eve | eve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 summoned | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Sunday | case |
| 5 | Easter | Easter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Sunday | compound |
| 6 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 eve | nmod |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Vladímir | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Vladímir | Vladímir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Sunday | flat |
| 9 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Danílo | Danílo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 summoned | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Unfortunate | det |
| 12 | Unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 summoned | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gave | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | nsubj |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 summoned | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | iobj |
| 18 | eighty | eighty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 score | nummod |
| 19 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 skins | case |
| 21 | sable | sable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 skins | amod |
| 22 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 score | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bade | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bade | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bade | nsubj |
| 26 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 summoned | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bade | obj |
| 28 | sew | sew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 bade | xcomp |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 shúba | det |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 31 shúba | punct |
| 31 | shúba | shúba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sew | obj |
| 32 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 bade | punct |
| 33 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 34 7 | punct |
| 34 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 bade | obl |
| 35 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 34 7 | punct |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 feast | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 feast | det |
| 38 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bade | obl |
| 39 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 45 prepared | punct |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 skins | det |
| 41 | sable | sable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 skins | amod |
| 42 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 prepared | aux:pass |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 prepared | advmod |
| 45 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 summoned | parataxis |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 moulded | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 moulded | cc |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 buttons | det |
| 49 | buttons | button | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 moulded | nsubj:pass |
| 50 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 moulded | aux |
| 51 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 53 moulded | advmod |
| 52 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 53 moulded | aux:pass |
| 53 | moulded | mould | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 prepared | conj |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 made | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 61 made | cc |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 buttonholes | det |
| 57 | buttonholes | buttonhole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 61 made | nsubj:pass |
| 58 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 61 made | aux |
| 59 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 61 made | advmod |
| 60 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 61 made | aux:pass |
| 61 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 prepared | conj |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past | Danílo | the eve of Easter Sunday | unfortunate property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent danílo=Recipient | |||
| 2 | give | past | DANÍLO = danílo | eighty score of sable skins | Prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient score=Theme | |||
| 3 | bade | past | DANÍLO = danílo | Prince | for the feast; 7 obl | tree rules | |||
| 4 | sew | infinitive | DANÍLO = danílo not said here | a shúba | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shúba=Product | ||||
| 5 | not prepare | past · passive | the sable skins | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | not mould | past · perfect · passive | the buttons | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | not make | past · perfect · passive | the buttonholes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 8 | score | sable skins | nom score «cognition transitive»: 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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