Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 97
So she set out to find the Talking-Bird, Singing-Tree, and Water of Life.
Who acts: life · What happens: set out, find · To what, where: Water, Talking Bird
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 (life), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 find | mark |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 set | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Bird | det |
| 8 | Talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Bird | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Talking | punct |
| 10 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Tree | punct |
| 12 | Singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Tree | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Singing | punct |
| 14 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Bird | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Water | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Water | cc |
| 17 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Life | case |
| 19 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Water | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | life | Water of Life | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | life not said here | the Talking Bird and Singing Tree | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Topic |
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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