Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 78
The hag replied: “You still need the Talking-Bird, the Singing-Tree, and the Water of Life.”
Who acts: hag, You · What happens: reply, need · To what, where: Talking Bird · 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 (hag, You), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hag | det |
| 2 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 need | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 need | punct |
| 6 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 need | nsubj |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 need | advmod |
| 8 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Bird | det |
| 10 | Talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Bird | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Bird | punct |
| 12 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 need | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Tree | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Tree | det |
| 15 | Singing | Singing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Tree | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Singing | punct |
| 17 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Bird | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Water | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Water | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Water | det |
| 21 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | parataxis |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Life | case |
| 23 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Water | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 Water | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Water | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the hag | the Water of Life parataxis | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | need in a quote | present | You | the Talking Bird and the Singing Tree | still | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bird=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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