Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 48
“For this reason: let me see the Swan, the fair maiden; let her body glint through her wings, and through her body let her bones appear, and from bone to bone let the marrow run like a flowing string of pearls.”
Who acts: last Chúdo Yúda, body, bones, marrow · What happens: let, see, appear, run, flow · To what, where: last Chúdo Yúda, Swan, body glint, Yúda, wings, marrow
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 (last Chúdo Yúda, body, bones, marrow), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 reason | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 reason | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 reason | det |
| 4 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 reason | parataxis |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Swan | det |
| 10 | Swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 maiden | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 maiden | det |
| 13 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 maiden | amod |
| 14 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Swan | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 let | obj |
| 18 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 glint | compound |
| 19 | glint | glint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 let | obj |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 wings | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wings | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 let | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 let | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 let | cc |
| 25 | through | through | SCONJ | _ | 28 let | mark |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 body | nmod:poss |
| 27 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 let | nsubj |
| 28 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | parataxis |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 let | obj |
| 30 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 appear | nsubj |
| 31 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 let | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 let | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 let | cc |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 bone | case |
| 35 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 let | obl |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 bone | case |
| 37 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bone | nmod |
| 38 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 31 appear | parataxis |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 marrow | det |
| 40 | marrow | marrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 let | obj |
| 41 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 let | xcomp |
| 42 | like | like | ADP | _ | 45 string | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 string | det |
| 44 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 45 string | amod |
| 45 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 run | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 pearls | case |
| 47 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 string | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reason | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 reason | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | last Chúdo Yúda = yúda | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | last Chúdo Yúda = yúda not said here | the Swan and the fair maiden | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer swan=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | body glint | Yúda | Yúda's wings | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient glint=Theme | |||
| 4 | let in a quote | past | Yúda's body | Yúda | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | appear in a quote | present | bones | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | let in a quote | infinitive | the marrow | bone to bone | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | run in a quote | present | the marrow not said here | like a flowing string of pearls | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | flow in a quote | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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