Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 49
The Tsar and the Tsarítsa sat on a chariot, and the earth trembled, and the people ran up crying out, “Long live the Tsar and Tsarítsa!”
Who acts: Tsar, earth, people · What happens: sit, tremble, run up, cry out, live · To what, where: chariot, Tsar · 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 (Tsar, earth, people), 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 Tsar | det |
| 2 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Tsarítsa | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Tsarítsa | det |
| 5 | Tsarítsa | Tsarítsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Tsar | conj |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 chariot | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 chariot | det |
| 9 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 trembled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 trembled | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 earth | det |
| 13 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 trembled | nsubj |
| 14 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sat | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ran | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ran | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 people | det |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 ran | nsubj |
| 19 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sat | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 ran | compound:prt |
| 21 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 ran | advcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 crying | compound:prt |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 live | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 live | punct |
| 25 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 live | advmod |
| 26 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sat | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Tsar | det |
| 28 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 live | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Tsarítsa | cc |
| 30 | Tsarítsa | Tsarítsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Tsar | conj |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 30 Tsarítsa | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the Tsar and the Tsarítsa | a chariot | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chariot=Location | ||||
| 2 | tremble | past | the earth | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run up | past | the people | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cry out speech: express | gerund | the people not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | live in a quote | present | the Tsar and the Tsarítsa not said here | the Tsar and Tsarítsa | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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