Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 32
Both were very energetic rulers who enlarged the domain of Moscow and curbed the power of the territorial nobility.
Who acts: Both, energetic rulers · What happens: be, enlarge, curb · To what, where: energetic rulers, domain, power
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 (Both, energetic rulers), 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 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 rulers | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rulers | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 energetic | advmod |
| 4 | energetic | energetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rulers | amod |
| 5 | rulers | ruler | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 enlarged | nsubj |
| 7 | enlarged | enlarge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rulers | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 domain | det |
| 9 | domain | domain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 enlarged | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Moscow | case |
| 11 | Moscow | Moscow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 domain | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 curbed | cc |
| 13 | curbed | curb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 enlarged | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 power | det |
| 15 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 curbed | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 nobility | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 nobility | det |
| 18 | territorial | territorial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 nobility | amod |
| 19 | nobility | nobility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 power | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rulers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Both | energetic rulers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enlarge | past | energetic rulers | the domain of Moscow | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent domain=Patient | ||||
| 3 | curb | past | energetic rulers not said here | the power of the territorial nobility | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=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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