Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 137

“Well, our king has just died, and the _boyárs_ have sent the town-crier out to announce that old and young are to assemble, and each of them is to have a candle, and with the candles they are to go into the cathedral, and whosesoever’s candle lights of itself is to be king.”

Who acts: king, old, each · What happens: die, send, announce, be, go, light · To what, where: boyárs _, cathedral, king, candle

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, old, each), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 died	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	8 died	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 king	nmod:poss
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 died	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 died	aux
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 died	advmod
8	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	64 king	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sent	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sent	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boyárs	det
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 boyárs	punct
13	boyárs	boyár	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 _	compound
14	_	_	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sent	nsubj:pass
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sent	aux
16	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 died	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 crier	det
18	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 crier	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 town	punct
20	crier	crier	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sent	obj
21	out	out	ADV	_	16 sent	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 announce	mark
23	announce	announce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sent	advcl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 assemble	mark
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 assemble	nsubj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 young	cc
27	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 old	conj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 assemble	cop
29	to	to	PART	_	30 assemble	mark
30	assemble	assemble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 announce	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 have	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 have	cc
33	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	38 have	nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 each	nmod
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 have	cop
37	to	to	PART	_	38 have	mark
38	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 died	advcl
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 candle	det
40	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 have	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 king	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 king	cc
43	with	with	ADP	_	45 candles	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 candles	det
45	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 king	obl
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 are	nsubj
47	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 candles	acl:relcl
48	to	to	PART	_	49 go	mark
49	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 are	xcomp
50	into	into	ADP	_	52 cathedral	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 cathedral	det
52	cathedral	cathedral	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 go	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 ’s	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 ’s	cc
55	whosesoever	whosesoever	ADV	_	56 ’s	advmod
56	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 candles	conj
57	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 lights	compound
58	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 ’s	obj
59	of	of	ADP	_	60 itself	case
60	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	58 lights	nmod
61	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	64 king	cop
62	to	to	PART	_	64 king	mark
63	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	64 king	cop
64	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	64 king	punct
66	”	"	PUNCT	_	64 king	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	die in a quote	present · perfect	our king				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	send in a quote	present · perfect · passive		boyárs _		the town crier obj; out property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination crier=Theme
3	announce speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive					vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	old			assemble property	tree rules
5	is in a quote	present	each of _			a candle obj; have property	tree rules
6	go in a quote	to-infinitive			the cathedral		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cathedral=Initial_Location
7	is a in a quote	present		king		with the candles	tree rules
8	light in a quote			candle			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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 7, sentence 137

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 137