Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 16
The old man bowed down to the earth and asked for the Tsar’s mercy.
Who acts: old man · What happens: bow down, ask
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 (old man), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bowed | nsubj |
| 4 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 bowed | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 earth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 earth | det |
| 8 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bowed | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bowed | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 mercy | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Tsar | det |
| 13 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 mercy | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Tsar | case |
| 15 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow down | past | the old man | to the earth; down property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the old man not said here | for the Tsar's mercy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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