Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 45

“Thou, oh evil witch of Kíev, bid thy crow fly over the sea of Khvalýnsk, to the house of bronze; bid him peck the fiery snake, bid him gain the seven _pud_ key.

Who acts: Thou, evil witch · What happens: witch, bid, peck, gain · To what, where: crow, sea, fiery snake, snake, seven pud

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 (Thou, evil witch), 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	_	6 witch	punct
2	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 witch	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Thou	punct
4	oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 witch	discourse
5	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 witch	amod
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bid	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Kíev	case
8	Kíev	Kíev	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 witch	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 witch	punct
10	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 crow	nmod:poss
12	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bid	obj
13	fly	fly	ADV	_	10 bid	advmod
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 sea	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sea	det
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bid	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Khvalýnsk	case
18	Khvalýnsk	Khvalýnsk	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 sea	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 house	punct
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 house	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 house	det
22	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bid	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 bronze	case
24	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 house	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 bid	punct
26	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 bid	parataxis
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bid	obj
28	peck	peck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 bid	xcomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 snake	det
30	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 snake	amod
31	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 peck	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bid	punct
33	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	26 bid	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 bid	obj
35	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 bid	xcomp
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 pud	det
37	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 pud	nummod
38	_	_	PUNCT	_	37 seven	punct
39	pud	pud	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 gain	obj
40	_	_	PUNCT	_	41 key	punct
41	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bid	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 bid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	witch in a quote		Thou			of Kíev	tree rules
2	bid in a quote	past	evil witch	thy crow	the sea of Khvalýnsk	to the house of bronze; fly property	tree rules
3	bid in a quote	infinitive		crow			tree rules
4	peck in a quote	infinitive		the fiery snake			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Patient
5	bid in a quote	infinitive		snake		key obl	tree rules
6	gain in a quote	infinitive		the seven pud			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pud=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 45

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 45