Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 152
When the year came to an end he put a purse of money on the table, “Take,” he said, “as much as you like”; and the master went outside.
Who acts: year, father, you, master · What happens: come, put, take, say, like, go · To what, where: end, purse, table · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (year, father, you, master), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 end | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 end | det |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | nsubj |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 purse | det |
| 11 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 money | case |
| 13 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 purse | nmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 table | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 table | det |
| 16 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Take | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Take | punct |
| 19 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Take | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 said | nsubj |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 much | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 much | punct |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | _ | 27 much | advmod |
| 27 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 said | ccomp |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 like | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 like | nsubj |
| 30 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 much | advcl |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 like | punct |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 went | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 went | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 master | det |
| 35 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 went | nsubj |
| 36 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | conj |
| 37 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 36 went | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the year | to a end | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | put | past | father | a purse of money | the table | tree rules | |||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | like in a quote | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | go | past | the master | outside property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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