Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 172
“As it was in the first well, so ill shall in the next world deal by the rich peasant; and as it was in the second well, so good shall be the poor widow’s fare.”
Who acts: drink, rich peasant · What happens: be, deal · To what, where: second well
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 (drink, rich peasant), 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 | _ | 7 first | punct |
| 2 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 first | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 first | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 first | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 first | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 first | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 first | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ill | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 ill | advmod |
| 11 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 first | conj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 ill | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 deal | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 deal | det |
| 15 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 deal | amod |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 deal | compound |
| 17 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shall | obl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 peasant | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 peasant | det |
| 20 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 peasant | amod |
| 21 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 deal | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 well | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 well | cc |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 well | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 well | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 well | cop |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 well | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 well | det |
| 29 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 well | amod |
| 30 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 first | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 fare | punct |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 fare | advmod |
| 33 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 widow | amod |
| 34 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 widow | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 widow | cop |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 widow | det |
| 37 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 widow | amod |
| 38 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fare | nmod:poss |
| 39 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 38 widow | case |
| 40 | fare | fare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 well | appos |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 40 fare | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 fare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | drink | first, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | drink not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | drink | the second well | the good poor widow's fare appos | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | shall | 's the good poor widow | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | deal in a quote | the rich peasant | nom deal «act transitive»: by=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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