Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 84
When there are geese flying over Russia, will you pluck a feather out of them or let them fly by in peace?”
Who acts: geese, you · What happens: be, fly, pluck, let · To what, where: Russia, feather, geese
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 (geese, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 are | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 are | expl |
| 3 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 pluck | advcl |
| 4 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 are | nsubj |
| 5 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 geese | acl |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 Russia | case |
| 7 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 flying | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 pluck | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 pluck | nsubj |
| 11 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 feather | det |
| 13 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pluck | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pluck | obl |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 let | cc |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 pluck | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 let | obj |
| 20 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 let | xcomp |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 peace | case |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 peace | case |
| 23 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fly | obl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | geese | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly | gerund | geese not said here | Russia | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over russia=Location | ||||
| 3 | pluck | future | 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 | |||
| 4 | let | infinitive | you not said here | geese = goose | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fly | infinitive | geese = goose not said here | by peace | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by 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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