Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 54
And the old man took as much as he could take with his thumb and two fingers, but the pope took it by handfuls, and he rammed it all into his wallet and hid it away, concealed it, lifted it up as much as ever his power could.
Who acts: old man, man, pope · What happens: take, ram, hide away, conceal, lift up · To what, where: much, silver, wallet
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 (old man, man, pope), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 took | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 take | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 take | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 take | aux |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 much | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 thumb | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 thumb | nmod:poss |
| 14 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fingers | cc |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 fingers | nummod |
| 17 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 thumb | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 took | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 took | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pope | det |
| 21 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | nsubj |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 took | obj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 handfuls | case |
| 25 | handfuls | handful | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 took | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 rammed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 rammed | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 rammed | nsubj |
| 29 | rammed | ram | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 rammed | obj |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 it | det |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 wallet | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 wallet | nmod:poss |
| 34 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 rammed | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 hid | cc |
| 36 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 rammed | conj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 hid | obj |
| 38 | away | away | ADV | _ | 36 hid | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 concealed | punct |
| 40 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 concealed | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 lifted | punct |
| 43 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 lifted | obj |
| 45 | up | up | ADP | _ | 43 lifted | compound:prt |
| 46 | as | as | ADV | _ | 47 much | advmod |
| 47 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 lifted | obj |
| 48 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 52 could | mark |
| 49 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 51 power | advmod |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 power | nmod:poss |
| 51 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 could | nsubj |
| 52 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 much | advcl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the old man | much | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | could | man | with man's thumb and two fingers | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take | past | the pope | silver | by handfuls | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | ram | past | pope | silver | man's wallet | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into wallet=Destination | |||
| 5 | hide away | past | pope not said here | silver | away property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 6 | conceal | past | the old man not said here | silver | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 7 | lift up | past | the old man not said here | silver | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent it=Theme much=Destination |
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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