Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 41
Do you go to the border of the blue sea, and stand in front of the grey oak: at the hour of midnight the blue sea will boil over and Chúdo-Yúda, the Old Man of the Sea, will come out to you: he has no hands, no feet, and he has a grey beard.
Who acts: you, blue sea, sea · What happens: go, stand, boil over, come out, have · To what, where: border, front, Chúdo, you, hands, grey beard
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, blue sea, sea), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 border | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 border | det |
| 6 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 9 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sea | amod |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 border | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stand | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stand | cc |
| 13 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 front | case |
| 15 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stand | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 oak | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 oak | det |
| 18 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 oak | amod |
| 19 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 front | nmod |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 boil | punct |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 hour | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hour | det |
| 23 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 boil | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 midnight | case |
| 25 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hour | nmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sea | det |
| 27 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 sea | amod |
| 28 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 boil | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 boil | aux |
| 30 | boil | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 stand | conj |
| 31 | over | over | ADV | _ | 30 boil | advmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Chúdo | cc |
| 33 | Chúdo | Chúdo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 boil | obl |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 Yúda | punct |
| 35 | Yúda | Yúda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Chúdo | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Man | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Man | det |
| 38 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 Man | amod |
| 39 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Chúdo | conj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Sea | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Sea | det |
| 42 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Man | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 come | punct |
| 44 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 come | aux |
| 45 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 boil | conj |
| 46 | out | out | ADV | _ | 45 come | advmod |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 you | case |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 come | obl |
| 49 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 51 has | punct |
| 50 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 has | nsubj |
| 51 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | parataxis |
| 52 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 53 hands | det |
| 53 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 has | obj |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 feet | punct |
| 55 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 56 feet | det |
| 56 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 hands | conj |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 has | punct |
| 58 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 has | cc |
| 59 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 60 has | nsubj |
| 60 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 has | conj |
| 61 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 63 beard | det |
| 62 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 63 beard | amod |
| 63 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 has | obj |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · do-support | you | the border of the blue sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to border=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | stand | infinitive | front of the grey oak | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location | |||||
| 3 | boil over | future | the blue sea | Chúdo and Yúda and the Old Man of the Sea | hour | over property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||
| 4 | come out | future | the blue sea not said here | you | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 5 | have | present | sea | no hands and no feet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 6 | have | present | sea | a grey beard | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient |
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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