Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 142
There was no help for it: they acknowledged him as their king, and dressed him in golden apparel and led him to the palace.
Who acts: help, hands · What happens: be, acknowledge, dress, lead · To what, where: help, golden apparel, palace
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 (help, hands), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 help | det |
| 4 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 help | nmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 acknowledged | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 acknowledged | nsubj |
| 9 | acknowledged | acknowledge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 acknowledged | obj |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 king | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 king | nmod:poss |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 acknowledged | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dressed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dressed | cc |
| 16 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 acknowledged | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 dressed | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 apparel | case |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 apparel | amod |
| 20 | apparel | apparel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dressed | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 led | cc |
| 22 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 dressed | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 led | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 palace | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 palace | det |
| 26 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 led | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no help for candle | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | acknowledge | past | hands = hand | help | as hands's king | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 3 | dress | past | help | golden apparel | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 4 | lead | past | help | the palace | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to palace=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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