Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 70
But from the fire of the Sun the feathers even of these birds are consumed, because they are scorched away.
What happens: consume, scorch away, fire · To what, where: feathers, fire, Sun
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 consumed | cc |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 fire | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fire | det |
| 4 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 consumed | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Sun | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sun | det |
| 7 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fire | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 feathers | det |
| 9 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 consumed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 birds | advmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 birds | case |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 birds | det |
| 13 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 feathers | nmod |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 consumed | aux:pass |
| 15 | consumed | consume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 scorched | punct |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 scorched | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 scorched | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 scorched | aux:pass |
| 20 | scorched | scorch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 consumed | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 scorched | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 consumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consume | present · passive | the feathers of this birds | the fire of the Sun | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | ||||
| 2 | scorch away | present · passive | feathers = feather | away property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fire | the Sun | nom fire «event transitive»: of=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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