Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 150
Every morning he used to sweep out the courtyard: every evening he used to pasture the cattle, and he was engaged in ceaseless labour.
Who acts: father · What happens: use, sweep out, pasture, engage · To what, where: courtyard, cattle, father, ceaseless labour
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 (father), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 morning | det |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 used | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 used | nsubj |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sweep | mark |
| 6 | sweep | sweep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 used | xcomp |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 sweep | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 courtyard | det |
| 9 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sweep | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 used | punct |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 evening | det |
| 12 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 used | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 used | nsubj |
| 14 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 used | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 pasture | mark |
| 16 | pasture | pasture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 used | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cattle | det |
| 18 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pasture | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 engaged | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 engaged | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 engaged | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 engaged | aux:pass |
| 23 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 used | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 labour | case |
| 25 | ceaseless | ceaseless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 labour | amod |
| 26 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 engaged | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | father | morning | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | sweep out | to-infinitive | father not said here | the courtyard | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme courtyard=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | use | past | father | evening | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | pasture | to-infinitive | father not said here | the cattle | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme | ||||
| 5 | engage | past · passive | father | in ceaseless labour goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme in labour=Goal |
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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