Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 100
Go to the thrice-tenth sea, there there stands a hut on cocks’ legs in which the Bába Yagá lives.
Who acts: you, Bába Yagá · What happens: go, stand, live · To what, where: tenth sea, hut, legs
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Bába Yagá), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 4 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tenth | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 thrice | punct |
| 6 | tenth | tenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sea | amod |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stands | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 stands | expl |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 stands | expl |
| 11 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hut | det |
| 13 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stands | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 legs | case |
| 15 | cocks | cock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 legs | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 15 cocks | case |
| 17 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hut | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 lives | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Yagá | det |
| 21 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Yagá | compound |
| 22 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 lives | nsubj |
| 23 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 legs | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | the tenth sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | stand | present | a hut | cocks's legs; there; there | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hut=Theme on leg=Destination | ||||
| 3 | live | present | the Bába Yagá | cocks's legs | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=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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