Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 124

The moujik explained that as he could not get his money back from a man who was in his debt, he was proceeding against a surety; whereupon the merchant paid the debt, and thereby ransomed the picture, which he hung up in a place of honor, and kept a lamp burning before it.

Who acts: moujik, man, merchant, lamp · What happens: explain, not get back, be, proceed, pay, ransom · To what, where: money, debt, picture, place, lamp · 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 (moujik, man, merchant, lamp), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moujik	det
2	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 explained	nsubj
3	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 get	mark
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 get	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 get	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 get	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 get	advmod
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 explained	ccomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 money	nmod:poss
11	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obj
12	back	back	ADV	_	9 get	advmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 man	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obl
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 debt	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 debt	cop
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 debt	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 debt	nmod:poss
20	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 man	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 proceeding	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 proceeding	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 proceeding	aux
24	proceeding	proceed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 explained	advcl
25	against	against	ADP	_	27 surety	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 surety	det
27	surety	surety	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 proceeding	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 paid	punct
29	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	32 paid	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 merchant	det
31	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 paid	nsubj
32	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 explained	parataxis
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 debt	det
34	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 paid	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ransomed	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 ransomed	cc
37	thereby	thereby	ADV	_	38 ransomed	advmod
38	ransomed	ransom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 paid	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 picture	det
40	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ransomed	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 hung	punct
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 hung	obj
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 hung	nsubj
44	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 picture	acl:relcl
45	up	up	ADP	_	44 hung	compound:prt
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 place	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 place	det
48	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 hung	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 honor	case
50	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 place	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 kept	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 kept	cc
53	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 paid	conj
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 lamp	det
55	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 kept	obj
56	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	55 lamp	acl
57	before	before	ADP	_	58 it	case
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 burning	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 explained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	past	the moujik				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not get back	could	Moujik	Moujik's money		from a man	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme from man=Source
3	is	past	a man		Moujik's debt		tree rules
4	proceed	past · progressive	Moujik			against a surety	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	pay	past	the merchant	the debt		whereupon property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Asset
6	ransom	participle	the merchant not said here	the picture		thereby property	tree rules
7	hang up	past	merchant	the picture	a place of honor		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme in place=Destination
8	keep	past	the merchant not said here	a lamp			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme
9	burn	gerund	a lamp not said here		money		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before it=Location

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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