Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 38
“On the broad Volga, on the steep-set banks, the princely swan swims from the Prince’s courtyard.
Who acts: princely swan · What happens: swim · To what, where: broad Volga, courtyard
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princely swan), 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 | _ | 5 Volga | punct |
| 2 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 Volga | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Volga | det |
| 4 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Volga | amod |
| 5 | Volga | Volga | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 banks | punct |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 banks | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 banks | det |
| 9 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 banks | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 steep | punct |
| 11 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 banks | amod |
| 12 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Volga | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 swims | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 swan | det |
| 15 | princely | princely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 swan | amod |
| 16 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swims | nsubj |
| 17 | swims | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Volga | acl:relcl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 courtyard | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Prince | det |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 courtyard | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Prince | case |
| 22 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swims | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Volga | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim in a quote | present | the princely swan | the broad Volga and the steep set banks not said here | the Prince's courtyard | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location volga=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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