Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 82
They are sending me to Bába Yagá for fire, and the Bába Yagá will eat me up.”
Who acts: meat, Bába Yagá · What happens: send, eat up · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meat, Bába Yagá), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sending | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sending | aux |
| 3 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sending | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Bába | case |
| 6 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sending | obl |
| 7 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Bába | flat |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 fire | case |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sending | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 eat | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 eat | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Yagá | det |
| 13 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Yagá | compound |
| 14 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 eat | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 eat | aux |
| 16 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sending | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 eat | obj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 eat | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sending | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sending | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present · progressive | meat | me | to Bába; for fire | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to bába=Destination | |||
| 2 | eat up | future | the Bába Yagá | me | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
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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