Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 76

You must seek for the Bird of Light and bring it to me alive; and what I promised you before, he who captures the Bird of Light shall have.”

Who acts: You, I, LIGHT, Bird · What happens: seek, bring, promise, capture, have · To what, where: BIRD, me, you

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, LIGHT, Bird), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 seek	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 seek	aux
3	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 Bird	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Bird	det
6	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seek	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Light	case
8	Light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Bird	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bring	cc
10	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seek	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bring	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 bring	obl
14	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bring	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 what	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 what	cc
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 seek	conj
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 promised	nsubj
19	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 what	acl:relcl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 promised	iobj
21	before	before	ADV	_	19 promised	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 captures	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 captures	nsubj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 captures	nsubj
25	captures	capture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 seek	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Bird	det
27	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 have	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Light	case
29	Light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Bird	nmod
30	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 have	aux
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 captures	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seek	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 seek	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seek	must	You			for the Bird of Light; what conj	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for bird=Theme
2	bring	infinitive	You not said here	BIRD	me	alive property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Destination
3	promise speech: promise	past	I		you	before property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	capture	present	LIGHT			who nsubj	tree rules
5	have	shall	the Bird of Light				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 76

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 76