Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 75
And thus the cock sings to the light, magnifies its Creator, and announces joy to the just.
Who acts: cock · What happens: sing, magnify, announce · To what, where: light, Creator, joy
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sings | cc |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 sings | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cock | det |
| 4 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sings | nsubj |
| 5 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 light | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 light | det |
| 8 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sings | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 magnifies | punct |
| 10 | magnifies | magnify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sings | conj |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Creator | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Creator | creator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 magnifies | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 announces | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 announces | cc |
| 15 | announces | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sings | conj |
| 16 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 announces | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 just | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 just | det |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 announces | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | present | the cock | the light | thus property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to light=Recipient | |||
| 2 | magnify | present | the cock not said here | life's Creator | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent creator=Patient | ||||
| 3 | announce speech: other | present | the cock not said here | joy | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent joy=Theme to just=Recipient |
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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