Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 136
Did you pluck a feather out of them, or did you leave them in peace?”
Who acts: you · What happens: pluck, leave · To what, where: feather, geese, peace
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pluck | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 pluck | nsubj |
| 3 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 feather | det |
| 5 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pluck | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 feather | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 leave | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 leave | cc |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 leave | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 leave | nsubj |
| 13 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pluck | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 leave | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 peace | case |
| 16 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leave | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 pluck | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pluck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pluck | past · do-support | you | a feather | out geese = goose | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent feather=Theme out they=Source | |||
| 2 | leave | past · do-support | you | geese = goose | peace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in peace=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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