Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 111
Then the eagle flew on afar, and turned round again, and Iváshko fed him.
Who acts: eagle, Iváshko · What happens: fly, turn round, feed · To what, where: afar, eagle
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 flew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eagle | det |
| 3 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 afar | case |
| 6 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 flew | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turned | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 turned | cc |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 10 | round | round | ADV | _ | 9 turned | advmod |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 turned | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fed | cc |
| 14 | Iváshko | Iváshko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 fed | nsubj |
| 15 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fed | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the eagle | afar | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on afar=Location | |||
| 2 | turn round | past | the eagle not said here | again | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | feed | past | Iváshko | eagle | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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