Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 83
Ilyá Múromets took the Robber-Nightingale, tied him strongly to his steel stirrup and rode to the famous city of Kíev.
Who acts: Ilyá · What happens: take, tie · To what, where: Robber Nightingale, Nightingale
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilyá), 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 | Ilyá | Ilyá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | Múromets | Múromet | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Ilyá | flat |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Nightingale | det |
| 5 | Robber | Robber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Nightingale | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Robber | punct |
| 7 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tied | punct |
| 9 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tied | obj |
| 11 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 9 tied | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 stirrup | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 stirrup | nmod:poss |
| 14 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stirrup | compound |
| 15 | stirrup | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tied | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rode | cc |
| 17 | rode | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stirrup | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 city | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 city | det |
| 20 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 city | amod |
| 21 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tied | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Kíev | case |
| 23 | Kíev | Kíev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 city | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Ilyá | the Robber Nightingale | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument nightingale=Destination | ||||
| 2 | tie | past | Ilyá not said here | Nightingale | to Nightingale's steel stirrup and rode; to the famous city of Kíev; strongly property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to stirrup=Co-Patient |
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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