Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 104
“Oh, mother, the giant Ídolishche sent me to ask you to lend me your mighty eagle to carry me to Russia.”
Who acts: mother · What happens: send, ask, lend, carry · To what, where: Bába Yagá, you, mighty eagle, Russia
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 (mother), 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 | _ | 9 sent | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 mother | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ídolishche | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Ídolishche | det |
| 7 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Ídolishche | amod |
| 8 | Ídolishche | Ídolishche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mother | appos |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 sent | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 ask | mark |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sent | advcl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 ask | iobj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 lend | mark |
| 15 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ask | xcomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 lend | iobj |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eagle | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 eagle | amod |
| 19 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lend | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 carry | mark |
| 21 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 lend | advcl |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 carry | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Russia | case |
| 24 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 carry | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sent | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send in a quote | past | mother | the Bába Yagá = yagá | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | mother not said here | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lend not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | mother not said here | your mighty eagle | the Bába Yagá = yagá | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient eagle=Theme | |||
| 4 | carry in a quote | to-infinitive | mother not said here | the Bába Yagá = yagá | Russia | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to russia=Destination |
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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