Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 89
And he said, “Take heed, do not open the coffers until you reach home: open the red coffer in the back courtyard and the green coffer in the front courtyard.”
Who acts: eagle, you · What happens: say, take, not open, reach · To what, where: heed, coffers, red coffer, back courtyard · 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, you), 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 | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Take | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Take | punct |
| 6 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Take | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 open | punct |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 open | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 open | advmod |
| 11 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 Take | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 coffers | det |
| 13 | coffers | coffer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 open | obj |
| 14 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 reach | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 reach | nsubj |
| 16 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 open | advcl |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 reach | advmod |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 open | punct |
| 19 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 open | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 coffer | det |
| 21 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 coffer | amod |
| 22 | coffer | coffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 open | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 courtyard | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 courtyard | det |
| 25 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 courtyard | compound |
| 26 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 open | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 coffer | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 coffer | det |
| 29 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 coffer | amod |
| 30 | coffer | coffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 courtyard | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 courtyard | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 courtyard | det |
| 33 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 courtyard | amod |
| 34 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 open | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Take | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | eagle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take in a quote | infinitive | heed | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not open in a quote | infinitive · do-support | the coffers | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location coffer=Theme | |||||
| 4 | reach in a quote | present | you | home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | not open in a quote | infinitive | the red coffer | the back courtyard and the green coffer | in the front courtyard | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent coffer=Theme in courtyard=Location |
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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