Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 47
Then the Tsar bade them rise and looked on them kindly, bidding them remain in the city.
What happens: rise, look, bid, remain · To what, where: Tsar bade, sisters, city
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 rise | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bade | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bade | compound |
| 4 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rise | obl |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bade | obj |
| 6 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 looked | cc |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rise | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 looked | obl |
| 11 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 8 looked | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bidding | punct |
| 13 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 looked | advcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bidding | obj |
| 15 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 bidding | ccomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 city | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 city | det |
| 18 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 remain | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | present | the Tsar bade sisters | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | past | on sisters = sister; kindly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on they=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bid | gerund | sisters = sister | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | remain | present | the city | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=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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