Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 130

So on Easter Day he went into the church, and he took some fine eggs with him with which to greet his poor brothers, although his mother was very angry with him for so doing—for she was an evil-minded woman and merciless to the poor.

Who acts: man, mother, end · What happens: go, take, greet, be, do · To what, where: church, fine eggs, poor brothers, minded woman

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, mother, end), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 Day	case
3	Easter	Easter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Day	compound
4	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 church	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 church	det
9	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 took	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 took	nsubj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 eggs	det
15	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 eggs	amod
16	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 took	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 took	obl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 which	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 took	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 greet	mark
22	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 took	advcl
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 brothers	nmod:poss
24	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 brothers	amod
25	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 greet	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 angry	punct
27	although	although	SCONJ	_	32 angry	mark
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mother	nmod:poss
29	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 angry	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 angry	cop
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 angry	advmod
32	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 took	parataxis
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 angry	obl
35	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 doing	mark
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 doing	advmod
37	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 took	advcl
38	—	-	PUNCT	_	46 woman	punct
39	for	for	SCONJ	_	46 woman	mark
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 woman	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 woman	cop
42	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 woman	det
43	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 minded	amod
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 evil	punct
45	minded	minded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 woman	amod
46	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 doing	obl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 merciless	cc
48	merciless	merciless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 woman	conj
49	to	to	ADP	_	51 poor	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 poor	det
51	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 merciless	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	man			the church	on Easter Day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into church=Initial_Location
2	take	past	man	some fine eggs				with brother; which obj	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument egg=Theme which=Destination
3	greet speech: greet	to-infinitive	man not said here		man's poor brothers				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme
4	is	past	man's mother					with man; angry property	tree rules
5	do	gerund	man not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	end	a minded woman					tree rules
7	be		end not said here					to the poor	tree rules

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 19, sentence 130

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 130