Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 104
The rich peasant would not let them in, telling them: “Over there there lives a widow who receives beggars; go to her.”
Who acts: rich peasant, Christ, widow · What happens: not let in, tell, live, receive, go · To what, where: Christ, widow, beggars, peasant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich peasant, Christ, widow), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 peasant | det |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 peasant | amod |
| 3 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 let | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 let | advmod |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 let | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 telling | punct |
| 10 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 let | xcomp |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 telling | iobj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 lives | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 there | punct |
| 14 | Over | over | ADV | _ | 15 there | advmod |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 there | advmod |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 lives | advmod |
| 17 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 widow | det |
| 19 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lives | obj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 receives | nsubj |
| 21 | receives | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 widow | acl:relcl |
| 22 | beggars | beggar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 receives | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 go | punct |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 go | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let in | would | the rich peasant | Christ | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | Christ not said here | Christ | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | live in a quote | present | the rich peasant not said here | a widow | there; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme widow=Location | |||
| 4 | receive in a quote | present | a widow | beggars | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beggar=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go in a quote | infinitive | the rich peasant not said here | peasant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=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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