Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 48
Do thou bid, by my enchanting words, the crow gain me the seven _pud_ key.
Who acts: thou, enchanting words, my · What happens: bid, enchant, gain, word · To what, where: me
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, enchanting words, my), 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=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 bid | aux |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 bid | nsubj |
| 3 | bid | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 words | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 words | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 words | nmod:poss |
| 7 | enchanting | enchant | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 words | amod |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gain | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 crow | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 crow | det |
| 11 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 words | conj |
| 12 | gain | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bid | parataxis |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 gain | obj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pud | det |
| 15 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 pud | nummod |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 seven | punct |
| 17 | pud | pud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gain | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 key | punct |
| 19 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gain | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | infinitive · do-support | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | enchant | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | gain | present | my enchanting words and the crow | me | the seven pud obl:unmarked; key obl | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 4 | word | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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