Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 27
Koshchéy answered, “Beyond thrice-nine lands, in the thrice-tenth kingdom, beyond the river of fire, lives the Bába Yagá.
Who acts: Koshchéy · What happens: answer, live · To what, where: Bába Yagá · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Koshchéy), 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 | Koshchéy | Koshchéy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lands | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 lands | punct |
| 5 | Beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 9 lands | case |
| 6 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lands | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 nine | punct |
| 8 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 lands | nummod |
| 9 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 answered | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 kingdom | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 kingdom | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 kingdom | det |
| 13 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tenth | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 thrice | punct |
| 15 | tenth | tenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 kingdom | amod |
| 16 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 river | punct |
| 18 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 20 river | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 river | det |
| 20 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kingdom | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 fire | case |
| 22 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 river | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lives | punct |
| 24 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 kingdom | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Yagá | det |
| 26 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Yagá | compound |
| 27 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 lives | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Koshchéy | beyond thrice nine lands; the tenth kingdom parataxis | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live in a quote | present | Koshchéy not said here | the Bába Yagá | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme yagá=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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