Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 115
When Iváshko parted from the eagle, he spat a bit of flesh out and bade Iváshko lay it on him.
Who acts: Iváshko, bade · What happens: part, spat, lie · To what, where: 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 (Iváshko, bade), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 parted | advmod |
| 2 | Iváshko | Iváshko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 parted | nsubj |
| 3 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 spat | advcl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 eagle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 eagle | det |
| 6 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 parted | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 parted | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 spat | nsubj |
| 9 | spat | spat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bit | det |
| 11 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 out | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 flesh | case |
| 13 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bit | nmod |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 spat | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lay | cc |
| 16 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lay | nsubj |
| 17 | Iváshko | Iváshko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 lay | nsubj |
| 18 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 spat | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lay | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lay | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 spat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | part | past | Iváshko | from the eagle | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from eagle=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | spat | past | Iváshko | out property | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | bade | flesh | on Iváshko | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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