Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 7
For three years he maintained the princess’s army, gave it food and drink and dress.
Who acts: boy · What happens: maintain, give · To what, where: army
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 (boy), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 maintained | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 maintained | nsubj |
| 5 | maintained | maintain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 army | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 princess | case |
| 9 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 maintained | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 maintained | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | obj |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 drink | cc |
| 15 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 food | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dress | cc |
| 17 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 food | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 maintained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | maintain | past | boy | the princess's army | year | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent army=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past | boy not said here | army | food and drink and dress obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient food=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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