Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 54
Having lost all that his father has left him, he hires himself out, first as a laborer, then as a herdsman.
Who acts: man, father · What happens: lose, leave, hire out · To what, where: all, man
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:2861): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Having | have | AUX | VerbForm=Ger | 2 lost | aux |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 hires | advcl |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 lost | obj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 left | obj |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | aux |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 all | acl:relcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 left | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 lost | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hires | nsubj |
| 12 | hires | hire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 hires | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 hires | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 laborer | punct |
| 16 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 laborer | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 laborer | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 laborer | det |
| 19 | laborer | laborer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hires | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 herdsman | punct |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 herdsman | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 herdsman | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 herdsman | det |
| 24 | herdsman | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 laborer | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 hires | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | gerund · perfect | man not said here | all | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | leave | present · perfect | man's father | man | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme that=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | hire out | present | man | man | as a laborer and a herdsman | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent himself=Theme as laborer=Attribute |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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