Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 131

“Because,” the peasant answered, “my daughters-in-law do not sweep up the lathes; but put the _kvas_ on the table when they are sitting round together without saying grace.”

Who acts: peasant, daughters, lathes · What happens: answer, not sweep up, put, sit, say · To what, where: lathes, kvas, table, grace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant, daughters, lathes), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct
2	Because	because	SCONJ	_	7 answered	mark
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Because	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Because	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 peasant	det
6	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	nsubj
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sweep	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 sweep	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 daughters	nmod:poss
11	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sweep	nsubj
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 law	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 law	case
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 in	punct
15	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 daughters	nmod
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 sweep	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 sweep	advmod
18	sweep	sweep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 answered	ccomp
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 sweep	compound:prt
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lathes	det
21	lathes	lathe	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sweep	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 put	cc
24	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sweep	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 kvas	det
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	27 kvas	punct
27	kvas	kvas	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obj
28	_	_	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 table	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 table	det
31	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obl
32	when	when	SCONJ	_	35 sitting	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 sitting	nsubj
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 sitting	aux
35	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 put	advcl
36	round	round	ADV	_	35 sitting	advmod
37	together	together	ADV	_	35 sitting	advmod
38	without	without	SCONJ	_	39 saying	mark
39	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 sitting	advcl
40	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 saying	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the peasant				tree rules
2	not sweep up in a quote	present · do-support	my daughters in law	the lathes			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lathe=Trajectory
3	put in a quote	infinitive	my daughters in law not said here	the kvas	the table		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent kvas=Theme on table=Destination
4	sit in a quote	present · progressive	lathes = lathe			round, together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert in a quote	gerund	lathes = lathe not said here	grace			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent grace=Topic

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 131

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 131