Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 40
So for the third time the eagle spoke to him, “Do not shoot me, Tsar my master, rather take me to yourself, and feed me for three years; and at some time I shall be of service to you.”
Who acts: eagle · What happens: speak, not shoot, take, feed, be · To what, where: VASILÍSA, master, 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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spoke | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 eagle | det |
| 7 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spoke | nsubj |
| 8 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 spoke | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shoot | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 shoot | punct |
| 13 | Do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 shoot | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 shoot | advmod |
| 15 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 spoke | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 shoot | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Tsar | punct |
| 18 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 shoot | vocative |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 master | nmod:poss |
| 20 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shoot | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 take | punct |
| 22 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 23 take | advmod |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 shoot | parataxis |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 take | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 yourself | case |
| 26 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 take | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 feed | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 feed | cc |
| 29 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 take | conj |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 feed | obj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 years | case |
| 32 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 years | nummod |
| 33 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 feed | obl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 service | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 service | cc |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 time | case |
| 37 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 time | det |
| 38 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 service | obl |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 service | nsubj |
| 40 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 service | aux |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 service | cop |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 service | case |
| 43 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spoke | obl |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 you | case |
| 45 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 service | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 spoke | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the eagle | VASILÍSA = vasilísa | time | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | not shoot in a quote | infinitive · do-support | the eagle not said here | my master | the eagle = eagle | Tsar vocative | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=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 | feed in a quote | infinitive | the eagle = eagle | year | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | shall | the eagle = eagle | VASILÍSA = vasilísa | time | of service | 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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