Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 67

And when the Sun wanes to the West, then the angels strip off from him that garb and crown which would befit a Tsar, and lay it on the throne of the Lord.

Who acts: Sun, angels, garb · What happens: wane, strip off, befit, lay · To what, where: garb, Tsar, sun, throne

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 (Sun, angels, garb), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 strip	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 wanes	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sun	det
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wanes	nsubj
5	wanes	wane	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 strip	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 West	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 West	det
8	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wanes	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wanes	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 strip	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 angels	det
12	angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 strip	nsubj
13	strip	strip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 strip	compound:prt
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 strip	obl
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 garb	det
18	garb	garb	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 strip	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 crown	cc
20	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 garb	conj
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 befit	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 befit	aux
23	befit	befit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 garb	acl:relcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 Tsar	det
25	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 befit	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lay	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 lay	cc
28	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 befit	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lay	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 throne	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 throne	det
32	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lay	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 Lord	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Lord	det
35	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 throne	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 strip	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wane	present	the Sun				to the West	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	strip off	present	the angels	that garb and crown		then	from boy	vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent garb=Theme from he=Source
3	befit	would	that garb and crown	a Tsar				tree rules
4	lay	infinitive	that garb and crown not said here	sun	the throne of the Lord			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on throne=Destination

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 67

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 67