Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 77
Dmítri and Vasíli were envious of their younger brother Iván that he had succeeded in pulling the feather out of the Bird of Light’s tail.
Who acts: Dmítri, IVÁN · What happens: be, succeed, pull · To what, where: younger brother, feather, tail
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 (Dmítri, IVÁN), 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 | Dmítri | Dmítri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 envious | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Vasíli | cc |
| 3 | Vasíli | Vasíli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Dmítri | conj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 envious | cop |
| 5 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 brother | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 brother | amod |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 envious | obl |
| 10 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 brother | appos |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 succeeded | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 succeeded | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 succeeded | aux |
| 14 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 brother | acl |
| 15 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 16 pulling | mark |
| 16 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 succeeded | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 feather | det |
| 18 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pulling | obj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 tail | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 tail | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Bird | det |
| 22 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 tail | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 tail | case |
| 24 | Light | Light | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 tail | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Light | case |
| 26 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pulling | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 envious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Dmítri and Vasíli | of Dmítri's younger brother; envious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | succeed | past · perfect | IVÁN = iván | Dmítri's younger brother not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pull | gerund | IVÁN = iván not said here | the feather | Light's tail the Bird | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent feather=Theme out tail=Initial_Location |
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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