Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 1
Then again the labourer thought how he should not offend God, how he should not take too much for his work.
Who acts: labourer · What happens: think, not offend, not take, work · To what, where: God, much · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (labourer), 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 | 2 again | advmod |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 thought | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 labourer | det |
| 4 | labourer | labourer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 offend | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 offend | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 offend | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 offend | advmod |
| 10 | offend | offend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 offend | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 take | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 take | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 take | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 take | advmod |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 offend | conj |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 much | advmod |
| 19 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 take | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 work | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 work | nmod:poss |
| 22 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 much | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the labourer | again; then | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not offend | should | labourer | God | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus god=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not take | should | labourer | much | for labourer's work | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent much=Theme for work=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | work | labourer | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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