Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 116
The King’s son spoke with them, and then saw that they were his father and mother, wept for joy, and fell at the feet of his parents.
Who acts: son, King · What happens: speak, see, be, weep, fall · To what, where: father, feet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, King), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spoke | nsubj |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spoke | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 saw | advmod |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spoke | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 father | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 father | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 father | cop |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | ccomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 mother | cc |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 father | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wept | punct |
| 20 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saw | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 joy | case |
| 22 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wept | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fell | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 fell | cc |
| 25 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spoke | conj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 feet | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 feet | det |
| 28 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fell | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 parents | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 parents | nmod:poss |
| 31 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 feet | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the King's son | with King | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | King | son's father and mother | son nmod:poss; mother conj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | weep | past | for joy | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | fall | past | the King's son not said here | the feet of son's parents | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location |
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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