Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 50
So the Bába Yagá served them with food and drink, conducted them to the bath, and then afterwards she asked them: “Have ye come to do deeds, doughty youths, or to flee from deeds?”
Who acts: Bába Yagá, Yagá, ye · What happens: serve, conduct, ask, have, come, do · To what, where: food, bath, ye, deeds · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bába Yagá, Yagá, ye), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 served | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Yagá | det |
| 3 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Yagá | compound |
| 4 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 served | nsubj |
| 5 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 served | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 food | case |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 served | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 drink | cc |
| 10 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 food | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 conducted | punct |
| 12 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 served | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 conducted | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 bath | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bath | det |
| 16 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 conducted | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 asked | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 asked | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 asked | advmod |
| 20 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 22 asked | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 asked | nsubj |
| 22 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 served | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 asked | obj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 Have | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Have | punct |
| 26 | Have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 asked | ccomp |
| 27 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 Have | obj |
| 28 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 Have | xcomp |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 do | mark |
| 30 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 come | xcomp |
| 31 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 do | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 youths | punct |
| 33 | doughty | doughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 youths | amod |
| 34 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 deeds | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 flee | punct |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 flee | cc |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 flee | mark |
| 38 | flee | flee | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 Have | parataxis |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 deeds | case |
| 40 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 flee | obl |
| 41 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 38 flee | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | past | the Bába Yagá | food | with food and drink | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Recipient with food=Theme | |||
| 2 | conduct | past | the Bába Yagá not said here | food | the bath | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to bath=Destination | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Yagá | food | then | afterwards property | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||
| 4 | have in a quote | infinitive | ye | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | come in a quote | infinitive | ye not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | ye not said here | deeds and doughty youths | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | flee in a quote | to-infinitive | deeds | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from deed=Initial_Location |
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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