Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 38
The good youth bade these ambassadors be seized, had them cruelly and savagely punished and sent them back to the Tsarévna, who was to come herself and ask for a reconciliation.
Who acts: good youth bade, Tsarévna · What happens: seize, punish, send back, come, ask · To what, where: ambassadors, good youth bade, Tsarévna, princess
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good youth bade, Tsarévna), 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 | 4 bade | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bade | amod |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bade | compound |
| 4 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 punished | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 ambassadors | det |
| 6 | ambassadors | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seized | aux:pass |
| 8 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bade | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bade | punct |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 punished | aux |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | obj |
| 12 | cruelly | cruelly | ADV | _ | 15 punished | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 punished | cc |
| 14 | savagely | savagely | ADV | _ | 15 punished | advmod |
| 15 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sent | cc |
| 17 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 punished | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sent | obj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 sent | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Tsarévna | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Tsarévna | det |
| 22 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 come | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 come | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 come | aux |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 come | mark |
| 27 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 Tsarévna | parataxis |
| 28 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 come | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 ask | cc |
| 30 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 come | conj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 reconciliation | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 reconciliation | det |
| 33 | reconciliation | reconciliation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ask | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 punished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | infinitive · passive | the good youth bade not said here | this ambassadors | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | punish | past · perfect · passive | the good youth bade | cruelly, savagely property | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | send back | past | ambassadors = ambassador | the Tsarévna | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to tsarévna=Destination | ||||
| 4 | come | past | the Tsarévna | princess | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Theme | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | the Tsarévna not said here | for a reconciliation | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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