Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 78
Bába Yagá made a tremendous stir and cried out to her mares: “Why did you come back?”
Who acts: Bába, you · What happens: make, cry out, come back · To what, where: tremendous stir, mares · 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 (Bába, you), 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 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Bába | flat |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stir | det |
| 5 | tremendous | tremendous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stir | amod |
| 6 | stir | stir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cried | cc |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 cried | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 mares | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mares | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mares | mare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cried | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 15 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 come | advmod |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 come | nsubj |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | parataxis |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Bába | a tremendous stir | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | Bába not said here | Iván's mares | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mare=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | come back in a quote | past · do-support | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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