Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 90
And he went one day, and he went another day, and on the dawning of the third day he saw a wonderful palace, and in front of the palace there was an oak, and on the oak there sat a clear-eyed hawk.
Who acts: Iván · What happens: go, see, be, sit · To what, where: wonderful palace, dawning, oak, eyed hawk
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 day | nummod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 dawning | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dawning | det |
| 16 | dawning | dawning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 day | det |
| 19 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 day | amod |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dawning | nmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 palace | det |
| 24 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 palace | amod |
| 25 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 oak | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 oak | cc |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 front | case |
| 29 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 was | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 palace | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 palace | det |
| 32 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 front | nmod |
| 33 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 34 was | expl |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 oak | cop |
| 35 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 oak | det |
| 36 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 sat | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 sat | cc |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 oak | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 oak | det |
| 41 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sat | obl |
| 42 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 43 sat | advmod |
| 43 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 hawk | det |
| 45 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 eyed | amod |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 clear | punct |
| 47 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 hawk | amod |
| 48 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sat | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Iván | day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Iván | day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Iván | a wonderful palace | the dawning of the third day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | is a | past | a oak | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | sit | past | Iván not said here | a eyed hawk | the oak; there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent hawk=Theme on oak=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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