Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 58

The sun was already setting when the sea-bird flew to him, woke him up and said, “Arise, Iván Tsarévich—all the mares have gone home.”

Who acts: sun, sea bird, mares · What happens: set, fly, wake up, say, arise, go · To what, where: horse, Iván · 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 (sun, sea bird, mares), 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 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 setting	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 setting	aux
4	already	already	ADV	_	5 setting	advmod
5	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 flew	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bird	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bird	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 sea	punct
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flew	nsubj
11	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 setting	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 flew	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 woke	punct
15	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 setting	parataxis
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 woke	obj
17	up	up	ADP	_	15 woke	compound:prt
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 woke	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Arise	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 Arise	punct
22	Arise	arise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Iván	punct
24	Iván	Iván	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Arise	obj
25	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Iván	flat
26	—	-	PUNCT	_	31 gone	punct
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 mares	det:predet
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mares	det
29	mares	mare	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 gone	nsubj
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 gone	aux
31	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 Arise	advcl
32	home	home	ADV	_	31 gone	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 setting	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 setting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	set	past · progressive	the sun				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	fly	past	the sea bird		horse		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result
3	wake up	past		horse			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	arise in a quote	infinitive		Iván			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location iván=Theme
6	go in a quote	present · perfect	all mares			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 58

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 58