Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 4

Coo-Coo—Prince Danílo Coo-Coo—Govorílo Coo-Coo—’Tis a brother Coo-Coo—Weds his sister: Coo-Coo—Earth must split asunder Cooo—And the sister lie hid under.

Who acts: brother, Earth, sister · What happens: coo, split, lie, hide · To what, where: asunder, Coo

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 (brother, Earth, sister), 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	Coo	coo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Coo	punct
3	Coo	Coo	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Coo	appos
4	—	-	PUNCT	_	6 Danílo	punct
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Danílo	nmod:desc
6	Danílo	Danílo	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Coo	appos
7	Coo	Coo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Danílo	flat
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Coo	punct
9	Coo	Coo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Danílo	flat
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 Govorílo	punct
11	Govorílo	Govorílo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Danílo	conj
12	Coo	Coo	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Govorílo	flat
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Coo	punct
14	Coo	Coo	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Govorílo	appos
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 Coo	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 Tis	punct
17	Tis	Ti	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 Danílo	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 Coo	det
19	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Coo	nsubj
20	Coo	coo	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Coo	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 Coo	punct
22	Coo	coo	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Tis	appos
23	—	-	PUNCT	_	24 Weds	punct
24	Weds	wed	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 Coo	conj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 sister	nmod:poss
26	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Weds	appos
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 Coo	punct
28	Coo	coo	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Coo	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 Coo	punct
30	Coo	coo	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Coo	conj
31	—	-	PUNCT	_	34 split	punct
32	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 split	nsubj
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 split	aux
34	split	split	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 Coo	parataxis
35	asunder	asunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 split	obj
36	Cooo	Cooo	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 asunder	appos
37	—	-	PUNCT	_	41 lie	punct
38	And	and	CCONJ	_	41 lie	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 sister	det
40	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 lie	nsubj
41	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 split	conj
42	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 lie	ccomp
43	under	under	ADP	_	42 hid	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Coo	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	coo		brother		Weds conj; Coo Coo conj	tree rules
2	split	must	Earth	asunder		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent asunder=Patient
3	lie	present	the sister			tree rules
4	hide	past	the sister not said here			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 4

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Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 4