Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 66
Then she went to her window and called to her all the bees in the white world, “Hail, ye bees my servants, do ye build me a church of your white wax, and let it be finished before the morning.”
Who acts: Iván, ye · What happens: go, call, bee, build, let, finish · To what, where: servants, bees, Iván, church · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván, ye), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 window | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 window | nmod:poss |
| 6 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 called | cc |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 called | obl |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 bees | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bees | det |
| 13 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 called | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 world | det |
| 16 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 world | amod |
| 17 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bees | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Hail | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Hail | punct |
| 20 | Hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bees | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bees | punct |
| 22 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 bees | nsubj |
| 23 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 servants | nmod:poss |
| 25 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 build | punct |
| 27 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 build | aux |
| 28 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 build | nsubj |
| 29 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | parataxis |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 build | obj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 church | det |
| 32 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 build | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 wax | case |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 wax | nmod:poss |
| 35 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 wax | amod |
| 36 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 church | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 let | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 let | cc |
| 39 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 build | conj |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 finished | aux:pass |
| 42 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 let | xcomp |
| 43 | before | before | ADP | _ | 45 morning | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 morning | det |
| 45 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 finished | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Iván | my servants | then | to Iván's window | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||
| 2 | call speech: assert | participle | Iván not said here | all bees in the white world and Hail | Iván | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | |||
| 3 | bee in a quote | ye | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | build in a quote | present · do-support | ye | a church of your white wax | Iván | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary church=Product | |||
| 5 | let in a quote | infinitive | ye not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | finish in a quote | infinitive · passive | church | morning | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=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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