Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 134
But the Talking-Bird broke in and said: “They are your children.”
Who acts: Talking Bird, brothers · What happens: break in, say, be · To what, where: children · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Talking Bird, brothers), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 broke | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Bird | det |
| 3 | Talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Bird | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Talking | punct |
| 5 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broke | nsubj |
| 6 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 broke | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 broke | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 children | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 children | punct |
| 12 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 children | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 children | cop |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 children | nmod:poss |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 broke | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break in | past | the Talking Bird | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Talking Bird not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | brothers = brother | your children | your nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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