Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 34
On the gold one, very much gold had been poured, on the silver, very much silver had been poured, and the wooden one was buried in dirt.
What happens: pour, bury · To what, where: much gold, much silver, wooden one, dirt
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: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 one | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 one | det |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 one | compound |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 poured | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gold | amod |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 poured | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 poured | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 poured | aux:pass |
| 11 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 silver | punct |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 silver | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 silver | det |
| 15 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 poured | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 poured | punct |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 much | advmod |
| 18 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 silver | amod |
| 19 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 poured | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 poured | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 poured | aux:pass |
| 22 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 poured | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 buried | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 buried | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 one | det |
| 26 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 one | amod |
| 27 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 buried | aux:pass |
| 29 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 poured | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 dirt | case |
| 31 | dirt | dirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 buried | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 poured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | past · perfect · passive | much gold | on the gold one; the silver conj | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pour | past · perfect · passive | much silver | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | bury | past · passive | the wooden one | dirt | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in dirt=Destination |
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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