Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 164
Then, when the term was over, when one year more had gone by, the master again put a purse of money on the table: “Take,” he said, “as much as your soul desires”; and he himself went outside.
Who acts: term, more, master, soul · What happens: be, go by, put, take, say, desire · To what, where: 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 (term, more, master, soul), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 put | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 over | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 term | det |
| 5 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 over | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 over | cop |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 20 put | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gone | punct |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 gone | mark |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 year | nummod |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 more | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 gone | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gone | aux |
| 14 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 over | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 gone | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 master | det |
| 18 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | nsubj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 put | advmod |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 purse | det |
| 22 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 money | case |
| 24 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 purse | nmod |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 table | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 table | det |
| 27 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obl |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 Take | punct |
| 29 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Take | punct |
| 30 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 put | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Take | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 said | nsubj |
| 34 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 put | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 much | punct |
| 36 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 much | punct |
| 37 | as | as | ADV | _ | 38 much | advmod |
| 38 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 said | ccomp |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 42 desires | mark |
| 40 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 soul | nmod:poss |
| 41 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 desires | nsubj |
| 42 | desires | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 much | advcl |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 desires | punct |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 48 went | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 went | cc |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 went | nsubj |
| 47 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 46 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 48 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 put | conj |
| 49 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 48 went | advmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the term | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go by | past · perfect | more one year | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | put | past | the master | a purse of money | the table | then; again | tree rules | ||
| 4 | take in a quote | infinitive | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | desire in a quote | present | your soul | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 7 | go | past | 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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