Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 165

Geese and swans, geese and swans, Waft me away on your pinions: Take me home to my mother and father; With my mother and my father There is plenty to eat And life is sweet!

Who acts: Geese, plenty, life · What happens: waft, take, be, eat · To what, where: me, mother

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Geese, plenty, 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	Geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 Waft	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 swans	cc
3	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Geese	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 geese	punct
5	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Geese	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 swans	cc
7	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Geese	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Waft	punct
9	Waft	waft	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 Waft	obj
11	away	away	ADV	_	9 Waft	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 pinions	case
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 pinions	nmod:poss
14	pinions	pinion	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 away	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 Take	punct
16	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 Waft	conj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 Take	obj
18	home	home	ADV	_	16 Take	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 mother	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mother	nmod:poss
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Take	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 father	cc
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mother	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 is	punct
25	With	with	ADP	_	27 mother	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mother	nmod:poss
27	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 is	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 father	cc
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 father	nmod:poss
30	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mother	conj
31	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 is	expl
32	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 Waft	parataxis
33	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 is	nsubj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 eat	mark
35	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 plenty	acl
36	And	and	CCONJ	_	39 sweet	cc
37	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sweet	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 sweet	cop
39	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 eat	conj
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 Waft	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	waft	infinitive	Geese and swans and geese and swans	me			away property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme
2	take	infinitive	Geese and swans and geese and swans not said here	me	my mother and father		home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to mother=Destination
3	be	present	plenty			there	with my mother and my father	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	eat	to-infinitive	plenty not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	life				sweet property	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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 165

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 165