Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 76
If Túgarin is coming on earth and is not flying in the skies he is putting his turbulent head on my steel lance.
Who acts: Túgarin · What happens: come, not fly, put · To what, where: earth, skies, turbulent head, steel lance
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Túgarin), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 coming | mark |
| 2 | Túgarin | Túgarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 coming | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 coming | aux |
| 4 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 putting | advcl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 earth | case |
| 6 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coming | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 flying | cc |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 flying | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 flying | advmod |
| 10 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 coming | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 skies | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 skies | det |
| 13 | skies | sky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 flying | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 putting | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 putting | aux |
| 16 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | turbulent | turbulent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 head | amod |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 putting | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 lance | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 lance | nmod:poss |
| 22 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lance | compound |
| 23 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 putting | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 putting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come a condition, not said to happen | present · progressive | Túgarin | earth | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Location | ||||
| 2 | not fly | present · progressive | Túgarin not said here | the skies | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location | ||||
| 3 | put | present · progressive | Túgarin | Túgarin's turbulent head | my steel lance | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme on lance=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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