Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 191

But when the sun was near its setting, the outlandish bird came flying up to him, and awakened him saying:--

Who acts: sun, setting · What happens: be, come, fly up, say · To what, where: setting · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, setting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 setting	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 setting	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 setting	cop
6	near	near	ADP	_	8 setting	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 setting	nmod:poss
8	setting	setting	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bird	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bird	det
11	outlandish	outlandish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bird	amod
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 saying	advcl
14	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 came	xcomp
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 flying	compound:prt
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 flying	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 awakened	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 awakened	cc
20	awakened	awaken	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 saying	aux
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 awakened	obj
22	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 saying	punct
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 saying	discourse

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	is	past	the sun		sun's setting	tree rules
2	come	past	sun's setting			tree rules
3	fly up	gerund	sun's setting not said here	setting		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result
4	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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