Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 98
So he went and lifted his kaftan and found the duck tied to the lappet; one feather was of gold, one was of silver.
Who acts: earth, one feather · What happens: go, lift, find, tie, be · To what, where: kaftan, duck
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth, one feather), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lifted | cc |
| 5 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 kaftan | nmod:poss |
| 7 | kaftan | kaftan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lifted | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 found | cc |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lifted | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 duck | det |
| 11 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obj |
| 12 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 duck | acl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 lappet | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lappet | det |
| 15 | lappet | lappet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tied | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 gold | punct |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 feather | nummod |
| 18 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gold | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 gold | cop |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 gold | case |
| 21 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 silver | punct |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 silver | nummod |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 silver | cop |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 silver | case |
| 26 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gold | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | earth | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lift | past | earth not said here | earth's kaftan | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kaftan=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | earth not said here | the duck | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Topic | ||||
| 4 | tie | participle | the duck not said here | to the lappet | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to lappet=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | one feather | of gold and one silver | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | past | one feather not said here | of one silver | 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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