Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 90
So the Tsar took the two coffers, bade farewell to the eagle, and went on the blue sea: and he went on and he arrived at an island, where the ship stopped.
Who acts: Tsar, eagle, ship · What happens: take, go, go on, arrive, stop · To what, where: two coffers, eagle, blue sea, island
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 (Tsar, eagle, ship), 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 | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 coffers | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 coffers | nummod |
| 7 | coffers | coffer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bade | punct |
| 9 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coffers | conj |
| 10 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 13 eagle | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 eagle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 eagle | det |
| 13 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coffers | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 sea | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sea | det |
| 19 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sea | amod |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADV | _ | 24 went | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 arrived | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 arrived | nsubj |
| 28 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 went | conj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 island | case |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 island | det |
| 31 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 arrived | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 stopped | punct |
| 33 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 36 stopped | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 ship | det |
| 35 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 stopped | nsubj |
| 36 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 island | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Tsar | the two coffers and bade | the eagle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent coffer=Theme to eagle=Destination | |||
| 2 | go | past | the Tsar not said here | the blue sea | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on sea=Location | ||||
| 3 | go on | past | eagle | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | arrive | past | eagle | a island | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stop | past | the ship | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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