Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 50

Then the eagle rose higher and higher, and he flew and flew, and then he came down to earth and said, “Now, Tsar my master, come and sit on me: we will fly together.”

Who acts: eagle, we · What happens: rise, fly, come down, say, come, sit · To what, where: earth · 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, we), 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 rose	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eagle	det
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rose	nsubj
4	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 rose	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 higher	cc
7	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 higher	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 flew	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 flew	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 flew	nsubj
11	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rose	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 flew	cc
13	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 flew	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 came	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rose	conj
19	down	down	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 earth	case
21	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rose	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Tsar	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 Tsar	punct
26	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 Tsar	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Now	punct
28	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 said	ccomp
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 master	nmod:poss
30	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Tsar	appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 come	punct
32	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 Tsar	parataxis
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sit	cc
34	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 come	conj
35	on	on	ADP	_	36 me	case
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 sit	obl
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	40 fly	punct
38	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 fly	nsubj
39	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 fly	aux
40	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rose	parataxis
41	together	together	ADV	_	40 fly	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 fly	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the eagle		then	high property	tree rules
2	fly	past	eagle				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fly	past	eagle not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come down	past	eagle	earth	then	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to earth=Initial_Location
5	say speech: assert	past	the eagle not said here			Tsar ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	come in a quote	infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	sit in a quote	infinitive				on the eagle = eagle	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on i=Location
8	fly in a quote	future	we			together property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 50

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 50