Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 32

Well, he returned to his old home, and, thinking that his barrel had been lost, he considered it his first duty to settle with the Tartar.

Who acts: merchant · What happens: return, think, lose, consider, settle · To what, where: barrel

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 returned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 returned	nsubj
4	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 home	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 home	nmod:poss
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 home	amod
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 returned	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thinking	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thinking	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thinking	punct
12	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 returned	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 lost	mark
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 barrel	nmod:poss
15	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lost	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lost	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 lost	aux:pass
18	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 considered	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lost	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 considered	nsubj
21	considered	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thinking	parataxis
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 considered	obj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 duty	nmod:poss
24	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 duty	amod
25	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 considered	xcomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 settle	mark
27	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 considered	advcl
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 Tartar	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Tartar	det
30	Tartar	Tartar	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 settle	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	return	past	merchant		to merchant's old home result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result
2	think speech: other	gerund	merchant not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lose	past · perfect · passive		merchant's barrel		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	consider	past	merchant	barrel		vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute
5	settle	to-infinitive	merchant not said here		with the Tartar	vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with tartar=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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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