Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 63
Then the crow flung himself on earth and sat not far from the grey Wolf on the fields.
Who acts: crow · What happens: fling, not sit · To what, where: Iván, earth, grey Wolf
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 (crow), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 flung | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crow | det |
| 3 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flung | nsubj |
| 4 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 flung | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 earth | case |
| 7 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flung | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sat | cc |
| 9 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flung | conj |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 sat | advmod |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 sat | advmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Wolf | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Wolf | det |
| 14 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Wolf | amod |
| 15 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sat | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 fields | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fields | det |
| 18 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sat | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling | past | the crow | Iván | earth | then | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on earth=Destination | ||
| 2 | not sit | past | the crow not said here | the grey Wolf | on the fields; far property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on field=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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