Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 110

There were two moujiks in a certain village, we are told, one of whom was very rich and the other very poor.

Who acts: two moujiks, one, other · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: we · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (two moujiks, one, other), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 moujiks	nummod
4	moujiks	moujik	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 village	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 village	det
7	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 village	amod
8	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moujiks	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 told	aux:pass
12	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 were	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rich	punct
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 rich	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 whom	case
16	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 rich	obl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 rich	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 rich	advmod
19	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 told	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 poor	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 other	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 poor	nsubj
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 poor	advmod
24	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 rich	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	two moujiks in a certain village		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	present · passive		we			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	is	past	one			rich property	tree rules
4	be		the other				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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