Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 136

However many sheaves the Moujik may lay on the threshing-floor, he shall never thresh out of them more than a peck[446] at a time."

Who acts: many sheaves, sheaf · What happens: lay, not thresh out · To what, where: threshing floor, Elijah

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (many sheaves, sheaf), 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	However	however	ADV	_	7 lay	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sheaves	amod
3	sheaves	sheaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lay	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Moujik	det
5	Moujik	Moujik	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sheaves	appos
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 lay	aux
7	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	12 floor	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 floor	det
10	threshing	threshing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 floor	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 threshing	punct
12	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thresh	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thresh	nsubj
15	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 thresh	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 thresh	advmod
17	thresh	thresh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 lay	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	20 them	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thresh	obl
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	24 peck	advmod
22	than	than	ADP	_	21 more	fixed
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 peck	det
24	peck	peck	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thresh	obl
25	[	[	PUNCT	_	26 446	punct
26	446	446	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 peck	appos
27	]	]	PUNCT	_	26 446	punct
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 time	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 time	det
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thresh	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	may	many sheaves			the threshing floor		however property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on floor=Destination
2	not thresh out	shall	sheaf	Elijah			time	a peck obl	tree rules

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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