Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 144
“Lord, it would have been better had you bidden the keg roll to the poor widow’s door, for the rich man has so much.”
Who acts: Lord, rich man · What happens: be, bid, have · To what, where: better
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 (Lord, rich man), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lord | punct |
| 2 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 better | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lord | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 better | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 better | aux |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 better | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 better | cop |
| 8 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 bidden | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 bidden | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 bidden | nsubj |
| 11 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 roll | det |
| 13 | keg | keg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 roll | compound |
| 14 | roll | roll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bidden | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 door | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 widow | det |
| 17 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 widow | amod |
| 18 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 door | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 widow | case |
| 20 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bidden | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 has | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 has | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 24 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | amod |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 has | nsubj |
| 26 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 bidden | parataxis |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 much | advmod |
| 28 | much | much | ADV | _ | 26 has | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 bidden | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 bidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | would · perfect | Lord | keg nsubj; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bid in a quote | past · perfect · passive | better | to the poor widow's door; you nsubj; the keg roll obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | the rich man | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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