Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 72

"Your father bids you dig up the money--one potful is buried at the gate and the other in the corn-kiln--and distribute the whole of it among the poor."

Who acts: father, you · What happens: bid, dig up, bury, distribute · To what, where: money, one potful, gate, whole · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, you), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 bids	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bids	nsubj
4	bids	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 dig	nsubj
6	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bids	ccomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 dig	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 money	det
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dig	obj
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 buried	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 potful	nummod
12	potful	potful	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 buried	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 buried	aux:pass
14	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 dig	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 gate	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 gate	det
17	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 buried	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 other	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 other	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 buried	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	25 kiln	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 kiln	det
23	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kiln	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 corn	punct
25	kiln	kiln	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 other	obl
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 distribute	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 distribute	cc
28	distribute	distribute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 dig	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 whole	det
30	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 distribute	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 whole	obl
33	among	among	ADP	_	35 poor	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 poor	det
35	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 distribute	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bids	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 bids	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bid in a quote	present	Your father				tree rules
2	dig up in a quote	present	you	the money			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent money=Theme
3	bury in a quote	present · passive		one potful	the gate		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at gate=Destination
4	distribute in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	the whole		among the poor	vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent whole=Theme among poor=Recipient

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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