Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 68
On the third day the crow flew back and brought with him two phials: in one was the water of Life and in the other the water of Death.
Who acts: crow · What happens: fly back, bring, be · To what, where: two phials, one water
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 | 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 flew | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crow | det |
| 6 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flew | nsubj |
| 7 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 flew | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 brought | cc |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 flew | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brought | obl |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 phials | nummod |
| 14 | phials | phial | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 brought | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 water | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 water | nummod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 water | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flew | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Life | case |
| 22 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 water | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 water | cc |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 other | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 other | det |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 water | amod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 water | det |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 water | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Death | case |
| 30 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 water | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly back | past | the crow | day | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | the crow not said here | two phials | with Vóron | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent phial=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | the one water and the other water of Death | of Life; the other water of Death conj | tree rules |
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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