Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 38
And the eagle said to him a second time, “Do not shoot, Tsar my master, rather take me to yourself; and some day I shall be of service to you.”
Who acts: eagle, day · What happens: say, not shoot, take, be · To what, where: VASILÍSA, master, Tsar, eagle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle, day), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eagle | det |
| 3 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shoot | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 shoot | punct |
| 12 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 shoot | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 shoot | advmod |
| 14 | shoot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Tsar | punct |
| 16 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 shoot | obj |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 master | nmod:poss |
| 18 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shoot | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
| 20 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 21 take | advmod |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 shoot | conj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 take | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 yourself | case |
| 24 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 take | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 service | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 service | cc |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 day | det |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 service | nsubj |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 service | nsubj |
| 30 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 service | aux |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 service | cop |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 service | case |
| 33 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | parataxis |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 you | case |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 service | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 service | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 service | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the eagle | VASILÍSA = vasilísa | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | not shoot in a quote | infinitive · do-support | my master | Tsar | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent tsar=Destination master=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | the eagle = eagle | VASILÍSA = vasilísa | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to yourself=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | shall | some day | VASILÍSA = vasilísa | of service; I nsubj | tree rules |
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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