Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 110
The eagle flew on, flew on; then he soon turned his head round, and Iváshko gave him a bite of flesh.
Who acts: eagle, Iváshko · What happens: fly, fly on, turn, give, bite · To what, where: head, bite, eagle, flesh
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 (eagle, Iváshko), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 eagle | det |
| 2 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 flew | punct |
| 6 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 flew | compound:prt |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 turned | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 turned | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 turned | nsubj |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 turned | advmod |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turned | obj |
| 15 | round | round | ADV | _ | 12 turned | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gave | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gave | cc |
| 18 | Iváshko | Iváshko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | iobj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 bite | det |
| 22 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 flesh | case |
| 24 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bite | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the eagle | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fly on | past | the eagle not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | turn | past | eagle | eagle's head | then | round, soon property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||
| 4 | give | past | Iváshko | a bite of flesh | eagle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bite=Theme | |||
| 5 | bite | flesh | nom bite «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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