Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 27

He took upon himself the repayment of a silver rouble, which I lent to the son of a pig, who has since gone away and died.

Who acts: man, I, son · What happens: take, lend, go away, die, repay · To what, where: repayment, silver rouble, son

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, I, son), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 himself	case
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 took	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 repayment	det
6	repayment	repayment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 rouble	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rouble	det
9	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rouble	amod
10	rouble	rouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 repayment	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lent	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 lent	obj
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 lent	nsubj
14	lent	lend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 rouble	acl:relcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 son	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 son	det
17	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lent	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 pig	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 pig	det
20	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 son	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 gone	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 gone	nsubj
23	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 gone	aux
24	since	since	ADV	_	25 gone	advmod
25	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 son	acl
26	away	away	ADV	_	25 gone	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 died	cc
28	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 gone	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	man	the repayment of a silver rouble		upon man	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent repayment=Theme
2	lend	past	I	a silver rouble	the son of a pig		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Theme to son=Recipient
3	go away	present · perfect	the son of a pig			away, since property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	die	past	the son of a pig not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	repay			a silver rouble			nom repayment «act transitive»: of=patient

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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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