Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 72
For this reason the cock is a prophet, and it has under its wings a white feather belonging to the other birds.
Who acts: cock, prophet, white feather · What happens: be, have, belong · To what, where: prophet, wings
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: who acts (cock, prophet, white feather), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 reason | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 reason | det |
| 3 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prophet | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cock | det |
| 5 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prophet | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 prophet | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 prophet | det |
| 8 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 has | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 has | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 prophet | parataxis |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 wings | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wings | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 has | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 feather | det |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 feather | amod |
| 18 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wings | nmod |
| 19 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 feather | acl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 birds | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 birds | det |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 birds | amod |
| 23 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 belonging | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 prophet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the cock | a prophet | for this reason | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | present | prophet | prophet's wings a white feather | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | belong | gerund | a white feather not said here | to the other birds | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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