Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 168
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 | when | 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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