Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 114
So they blessed him and they let him go wherever the four winds blow.
Who acts: birds, eye, four winds · What happens: bless, let, go, blow · To what, where: eye
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, eye, four winds), 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 | _ | 3 blessed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 blessed | nsubj |
| 3 | blessed | bless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 blessed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 let | cc |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 let | nsubj |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 blessed | ccomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 10 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 blow | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 winds | det |
| 12 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 winds | nummod |
| 13 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 blow | nsubj |
| 14 | blow | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless | past | birds = bird | eye | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | present | birds = bird | eye | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | eye not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | blow | present | the four winds | wherever property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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