Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 140

There are fine folk who have holidays, there are wailful folk who must moil; every man has his lot.

Who acts: fine folk, wailful folk, man · What happens: be, have, moil · To what, where: holidays, lot

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fine folk, wailful folk, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 folk	amod
4	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 are	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 folk	acl:relcl
7	holidays	holiday	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 are	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 are	expl
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 holidays	acl:relcl
11	wailful	wailful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 folk	amod
12	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 are	nsubj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 moil	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 moil	aux
15	moil	moil	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 folk	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 has	punct
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 has	nsubj
19	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 are	parataxis
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 lot	nmod:poss
21	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 has	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	present	fine folk		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	present	fine folk	holidays		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holiday=Patient
3	moil	must	wailful folk and moil			tree rules
4	have	present	every man	man's lot		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 140

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 140