Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 70
“We will fly there,” said the eagle; “there my youngest sister lives.”
Who acts: We, eagle, youngest sister · What happens: fly, say, live · 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 (We, eagle, youngest sister), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fly | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 fly | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fly | aux |
| 4 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 fly | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fly | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fly | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eagle | det |
| 10 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 lives | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 lives | punct |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 lives | expl |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sister | nmod:poss |
| 15 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 sister | amod |
| 16 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lives | nsubj |
| 17 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 lives | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly in a quote | future | We | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the eagle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | live in a quote | present | my youngest sister | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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