Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 30
_ The Tsar Iván Vasíl’evich is a very popular figure in the Russian ballads; there are two of this name: Iván III.
Who acts: Tsar Iván Vasíl’evich, two · What happens: be · To what, where: popular figure, Russian ballads
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar Iván Vasíl’evich, two), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 figure | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Vasíl’evich | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Vasíl’evich | compound |
| 4 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Vasíl’evich | compound |
| 5 | Vasíl’evich | Vasíl'evich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 figure | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 figure | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 figure | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 popular | advmod |
| 9 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 figure | amod |
| 10 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 ballads | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ballads | det |
| 13 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ballads | amod |
| 14 | ballads | ballad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 figure | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 are | punct |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 are | expl |
| 17 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 figure | parataxis |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 are | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 name | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 name | det |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 two | nmod |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 III | punct |
| 23 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 III | nmod:unmarked |
| 24 | III | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 18 two | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 figure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Tsar Iván Vasíl’evich | a popular figure | the Russian ballads | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | present | two of this name | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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