Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 90
“No, he will not catch us up now; I have a fine knightly horse which flies like a bird.”
Who acts: Koshchéy, God, fine knightly horse · What happens: not catch up, have, fly · To what, where: us, fine knightly horse
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, God, fine knightly horse), 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 | _ | 7 catch | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 catch | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 catch | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 catch | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 catch | advmod |
| 7 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 catch | obj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 catch | compound:prt |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 catch | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 catch | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 horse | det |
| 15 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 horse | amod |
| 16 | knightly | knightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 horse | amod |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 flies | nsubj |
| 19 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 horse | acl:relcl |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 bird | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 bird | det |
| 22 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flies | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 catch | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not catch up in a quote | future | Koshchéy | us | now | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | God | a fine knightly horse | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fly in a quote | present | a fine knightly horse | like a bird | 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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