Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 160
The Lord knows what He gives to each man, whose money He divides, from whom He takes the last money.
Who acts: Lord · What happens: know, give, divide, take · To what, where: man, money, last money · 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 (Lord), 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 Lord | det |
| 2 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knows | nsubj |
| 3 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 gives | obj |
| 5 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gives | nsubj |
| 6 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 knows | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 man | case |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gives | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 money | punct |
| 11 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 12 money | nmod:poss |
| 12 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 man | appos |
| 13 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 divides | nsubj |
| 14 | divides | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 money | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 takes | punct |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 whom | case |
| 17 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 takes | obl |
| 18 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 takes | nsubj |
| 19 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gives | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 money | det |
| 21 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 money | amod |
| 22 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 takes | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | the Lord | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | give | present | lord | each man | what obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient what=Theme | |||
| 3 | divide | present | lord | each man's money not said here | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | present | lord | the last money | whom obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent money=Theme from whom=Initial_Location |
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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