Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 94
And then he saw that out of the water came a man, who went up to him and asked him, “Why are you weeping so bitterly, Tsar my master?”
Who acts: eagle, man · What happens: see, come, go up, ask, weep · To what, where: that, eagle, Tsar · 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, man), 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 | _ | 4 saw | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 man | acl:relcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 went | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 asked | cc |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 asked | iobj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 weeping | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 weeping | punct |
| 24 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 weeping | advmod |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 weeping | aux |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 weeping | nsubj |
| 27 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 asked | ccomp |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 bitterly | advmod |
| 29 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 27 weeping | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Tsar | punct |
| 31 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 weeping | obl |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 master | nmod:poss |
| 33 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 weeping | obj |
| 34 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 27 weeping | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | eagle | that | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | come | past | a man | of the water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of water=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | go up | past | a man | eagle | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | eagle not said here | eagle | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | weep in a quote | present · progressive | eagle | Tsar | my master obj; bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent master=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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