Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 139
Ho’s ta’en three locks o’ her yellow hair (Binnorie, oh Binnorie), And wi’ them strung his harp sae rare By the bonny mill-dams of Binnorie.
Who acts: three locks · What happens: string · To what, where: wi
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three locks), 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 | Ho | Ho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 locks | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ho | case |
| 3 | ta’en | ta'en | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 three | compound |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 locks | nummod |
| 5 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 strung | nsubj |
| 6 | o | o | ADV | _ | 10 hair | advmod |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 hair | punct |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hair | nmod:poss |
| 9 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hair | amod |
| 10 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 locks | nmod |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 Binnorie | punct |
| 12 | Binnorie | Binnorie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 hair | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Binnorie | punct |
| 14 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 15 Binnorie | discourse |
| 15 | Binnorie | Binnorie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Binnorie | conj |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 Binnorie | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 strung | punct |
| 18 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 strung | cc |
| 19 | wi | wi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 strung | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 wi | punct |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 strung | nsubj |
| 22 | strung | string | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 harp | nmod:poss |
| 24 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 strung | obj |
| 25 | sae | sae | ADV | _ | 26 rare | advmod |
| 26 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 strung | xcomp |
| 27 | By | by | ADP | _ | 32 dams | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 dams | det |
| 29 | bonny | bonny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dams | compound |
| 30 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dams | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 mill | punct |
| 32 | dams | dam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 rare | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Binnorie | case |
| 34 | Binnorie | Binnorie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 dams | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 strung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | string | past | Ho's three locks Binnorie's yellow hair | wi | locks = lock nsubj; Filyushka's harp obj; rare property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent harp=Destination |
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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