Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 41
But his father was not good: he was always tortured with greedy thoughts, how he should derive greater profit from his country and extract heavier taxes.
Who acts: father, King · What happens: not be, torture, derive, extract · To what, where: King, greater profit, country, heavier taxes
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 (father, King), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 good | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 good | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 good | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 good | advmod |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 tortured | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tortured | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 tortured | aux:pass |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 tortured | advmod |
| 11 | tortured | torture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 good | csubj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 thoughts | case |
| 13 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thoughts | amod |
| 14 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tortured | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 derive | punct |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 derive | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 derive | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 derive | aux |
| 19 | derive | derive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tortured | conj |
| 20 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 profit | amod |
| 21 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 derive | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 country | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 country | nmod:poss |
| 24 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 derive | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 extract | cc |
| 26 | extract | extract | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 derive | conj |
| 27 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 taxes | amod |
| 28 | taxes | tax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 extract | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | King's father | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | torture | past · passive | King | with greedy thoughts; always property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | derive | should | King | greater profit | King's country | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent profit=Result from country=Material | |||
| 4 | extract | infinitive | King not said here | heavier taxes | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=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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