Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 20
The Eagle rushed into the blue sea, dragged out the cask to the shore, and the Hawk flew for the Water of Life, and the Crow flew for the Water of Death.
Who acts: Eagle, Hawk, Crow · What happens: rush, drag out, fly · To what, where: blue sea, cask, shore
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eagle, Hawk, Crow), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Eagle | det |
| 2 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rushed | nsubj |
| 3 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 6 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sea | amod |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rushed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dragged | punct |
| 9 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rushed | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 dragged | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cask | det |
| 12 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dragged | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 shore | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shore | det |
| 15 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dragged | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 flew | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 flew | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Hawk | det |
| 19 | Hawk | Hawk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 flew | nsubj |
| 20 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rushed | parataxis |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 Water | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Water | det |
| 23 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 flew | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Life | case |
| 25 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Water | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 flew | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 flew | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Crow | det |
| 29 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 flew | nsubj |
| 30 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 flew | conj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 Water | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Water | det |
| 33 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 flew | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Death | case |
| 35 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Water | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | the Eagle | into the blue sea result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into sea=Result | ||||
| 2 | drag out | participle | the Eagle not said here | the cask | the shore | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cask=Theme to shore=Destination | |||
| 3 | fly | past | the Hawk | for the Water of Life | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fly | past | the Crow | for the Water of Death | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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