Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 94

Much wealth did the merchant expend, but he built the bridge, and when the work was completed he sent his manager Fedor, saying--

Who acts: Much wealth, merchant, wealth · What happens: do, expend, build, complete, send, say · To what, where: merchant, bridge, work, manager · 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 (Much wealth, merchant, wealth), 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	Much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wealth	amod
2	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 merchant	det
5	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	expend	expend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 merchant	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 built	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 built	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 built	nsubj
10	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bridge	det
12	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 built	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 completed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 completed	cc
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 completed	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 work	det
17	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 completed	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 completed	aux:pass
19	completed	complete	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 sent	advcl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sent	nsubj
21	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 manager	nmod:poss
23	manager	manager	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sent	obj
24	Fedor	Fedor	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 manager	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saying	punct
26	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 sent	advcl
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Much wealth	the merchant	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchant=Eventuality
2	expend	infinitive	the merchant not said here		tree rules
3	build	past	wealth	the bridge	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Product
4	complete	past · passive		the work	vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
5	send	past	wealth	bridge's manager	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manager=Theme
6	say speech: assert	gerund	wealth not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 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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