Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 39
On the third day Tsar Dolmát delivered to Iván the Bird of Light with the golden cage.
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: deliver · To what, where: Bird, Iván
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 delivered | obl |
| 5 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 delivered | nsubj |
| 6 | Dolmát | Dolmát | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Tsar | flat |
| 7 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Iván | case |
| 9 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 delivered | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Bird | det |
| 11 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 delivered | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Light | case |
| 13 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Bird | nmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 cage | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cage | det |
| 16 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cage | amod |
| 17 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 delivered | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 delivered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deliver | past | Tsar | the Bird of Light | Iván | day | with the golden cage | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bird=Theme to iván=Destination |
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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