Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 37
“Do not eat it,” the sea-bird said; “at some time I shall be of service to you, Iván Tsarévich.”
Who acts: sea bird · What happens: not eat, say, be · To what, where: Yagá, you · 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 (sea bird), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 eat | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 eat | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 eat | advmod |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 eat | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eat | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 eat | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bird | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bird | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 sea | punct |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 service | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 service | punct |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 service | obl |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 service | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 service | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 service | cop |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 service | case |
| 22 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 you | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 service | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Iván | punct |
| 26 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 service | appos |
| 27 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Iván | flat |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 Iván | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 service | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Yagá | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the sea bird | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | shall | the sea bird = bird | you | time | of service; Iván appos | tree rules |
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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