Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 107
Sit on his back if you are not afraid, and fly away.
Who acts: you · What happens: sit, not be, fly away · To what, where: back
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), 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 | Sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 back | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 back | nmod:poss |
| 4 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sit | obl |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 afraid | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 afraid | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 afraid | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 afraid | advmod |
| 9 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Sit | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fly | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fly | cc |
| 12 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Sit | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 fly | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | imperative | you not said here | Bába's back | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location | ||||
| 2 | not is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fly away | infinitive | you not said here | away property | 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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