Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 91
He got out on the shore, and he remembered the two coffers, and began to wonder what was in them, and why the eagle had bidden him not to open them; and he thought and thought, and his patience gave way.
Who acts: eagle, patience · What happens: get out, remember, begin, wonder, bid, not open · To what, where: shore, two coffers, eagle, coffers, way
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, patience), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 got | compound:prt |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 shore | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shore | det |
| 6 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 remembered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 remembered | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 remembered | nsubj |
| 10 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 coffers | det |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 coffers | nummod |
| 13 | coffers | coffer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 remembered | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 began | cc |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 remembered | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 wonder | mark |
| 18 | wonder | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 began | xcomp |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 wonder | obj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 was | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 bidden | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 bidden | cc |
| 25 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 bidden | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 eagle | det |
| 27 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bidden | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 bidden | aux |
| 29 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 began | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 bidden | obj |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 open | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 open | mark |
| 33 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 bidden | advcl |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 open | obj |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 thought | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 thought | cc |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 thought | nsubj |
| 38 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | parataxis |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 thought | cc |
| 40 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 thought | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 gave | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 gave | cc |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 patience | nmod:poss |
| 44 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 gave | nsubj |
| 45 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 thought | conj |
| 46 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 gave | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out | past | eagle | the shore | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | remember | past | eagle | the two coffers | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent coffer=Theme | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | to-infinitive | what obj | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | bid | past · perfect · passive | the eagle | man obj | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not open | to-infinitive | coffers = coffer | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | |||||
| 7 | think speech: other | past | eagle | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | think speech: other | past | eagle not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | give | past | eagle's patience | way | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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