Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 166
They began, played a game out, and the soldier won; another, and the same luck; and all the finessing of the devils availed them nothing; the soldier won all the money, and raked it all together.
Who acts: cards, soldier, finessing · What happens: begin, play out, win, avail, rake · To what, where: game, another, cards, money
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cards, soldier, finessing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 played | punct |
| 4 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 began | conj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 game | det |
| 6 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 played | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 played | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 won | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 won | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 soldier | det |
| 11 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 won | nsubj |
| 12 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 began | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 another | punct |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 won | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 luck | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 luck | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 luck | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 luck | amod |
| 19 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 won | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 availed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 availed | cc |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 finessing | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 finessing | det |
| 24 | finessing | finessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 availed | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 devils | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 devils | det |
| 27 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 finessing | nmod |
| 28 | availed | avail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 began | conj |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 availed | obj |
| 30 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 28 availed | obj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 won | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 soldier | det |
| 33 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 won | nsubj |
| 34 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 began | parataxis |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 money | det:predet |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 money | det |
| 37 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 won | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 raked | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 raked | cc |
| 40 | raked | rake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 won | conj |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 raked | obj |
| 42 | all | all | ADV | _ | 43 together | advmod |
| 43 | together | together | ADV | _ | 40 raked | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | cards = card | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | play out | past | cards = card not said here | a game | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | ||||
| 3 | win | past | the soldier | another | the same luck obl | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | avail | past | all finessing of the devils | cards = card | nothing obj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | win | past | the soldier | all money | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | rake | past | the soldier not said here | money | together property | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Initial_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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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