Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 153
The workman went up to the table and thought, “How shall I not be guilty in the eyes of God if I take too much for my labour?”
Who acts: workman · What happens: go up, think, not be, take · To what, where: eyes, much · 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 (workman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 workman | det |
| 2 | workman | workman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 table | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 table | det |
| 7 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thought | cc |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 guilty | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 guilty | punct |
| 12 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 guilty | advmod |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 guilty | aux |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 guilty | nsubj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 guilty | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 guilty | cop |
| 17 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 eyes | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 eyes | det |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 guilty | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 God | case |
| 22 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 eyes | nmod |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 take | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 take | nsubj |
| 25 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 26 | too | too | ADV | _ | 27 much | advmod |
| 27 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 take | obj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 labour | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 labour | nmod:poss |
| 30 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 take | obl |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | the workman | to the table | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the workman not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | shall | the workman = workman | the eyes of God | guilty property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | take a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the workman = workman | much | for my labour | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent much=Theme for labour=Beneficiary |
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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