Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 91
And the Hawk flew down from the oak, struck the ground, turned into a doughty youth, and cried out, “O my beloved brother: how is the Lord dealing with you?”
Who acts: Hawk, Lord · What happens: fly down, strike, turn, cry out, deal · To what, where: oak, ground, doughty youth, beloved brother · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Hawk, Lord), 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 | _ | 4 flew | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hawk | det |
| 3 | Hawk | Hawk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 oak | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 oak | det |
| 8 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 struck | punct |
| 10 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ground | det |
| 12 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 struck | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turned | punct |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 struck | advcl |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 youth | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 youth | det |
| 17 | doughty | doughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 youth | amod |
| 18 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turned | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cried | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cried | cc |
| 21 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 cried | compound:prt |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 brother | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 brother | punct |
| 25 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 28 brother | discourse |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 brother | nmod:poss |
| 27 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 brother | amod |
| 28 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cried | obl |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 dealing | punct |
| 30 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 dealing | advmod |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 dealing | aux |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Lord | det |
| 33 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 dealing | nsubj |
| 34 | dealing | deal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 cried | advcl |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 you | case |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 dealing | obl |
| 37 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 34 dealing | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly down | past | the Hawk | the oak | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from oak=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | strike | past | the Hawk not said here | the ground | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Patient | ||||
| 3 | turn | participle | the Hawk not said here | a doughty youth | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into youth=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | cry out speech: express | past | the Hawk not said here | my beloved brother | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | deal in a quote | present · progressive | the Lord | with you | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with you=Theme |
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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