Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 117

“In a certain pond,” a fifth devil said, “there is a peasant who has put up a water-mill, and for many years he has been striving to make it go, but whenever he lets the water through the sluice, I make a hole in it, and all the water flows through.”

Who acts: fifth devil, peasant, mill, water · What happens: say, be, put up, strive, make, go · To what, where: certain pond, water mill, mill, water, sluice, hole · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fifth devil, peasant, mill, water), 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	_	11 said	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	5 pond	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pond	det
4	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pond	amod
5	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pond	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 pond	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 devil	det
9	fifth	fifth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 devil	amod
10	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 is	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 is	punct
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 is	expl
15	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 peasant	det
17	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 is	nsubj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 put	nsubj
19	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 put	aux
20	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 peasant	acl:relcl
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 put	compound:prt
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 mill	det
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mill	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 water	punct
25	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 striving	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 striving	cc
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 years	case
29	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 years	amod
30	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 striving	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 striving	nsubj
32	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 striving	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 striving	aux
34	striving	strive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 make	mark
36	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 striving	xcomp
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 make	obj
38	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 make	xcomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 make	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	51 make	cc
41	whenever	whenever	SCONJ	_	43 lets	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 lets	nsubj
43	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 make	advcl
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 water	det
45	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 lets	obj
46	through	through	ADP	_	48 sluice	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 sluice	det
48	sluice	sluice	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 lets	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 lets	punct
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 make	nsubj
51	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 hole	det
53	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 make	obj
54	in	in	ADP	_	55 it	case
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 make	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 flows	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 flows	cc
58	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	60 water	det:predet
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 water	det
60	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 flows	nsubj
61	flows	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 make	conj
62	through	through	ADP	_	61 flows	advmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
64	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a fifth devil		a certain pond			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be in a quote	present	a peasant		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	put up in a quote	present · perfect	a peasant	a water mill				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mill=Goal
4	strive in a quote	present · perfect · progressive	peasant			year		tree rules
5	make in a quote	to-infinitive	peasant not said here	mill				tree rules
6	go in a quote	infinitive	mill not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	let in a quote	present	peasant	the water	the sluice			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
8	make in a quote	present	a fifth devil = devil	a hole			in devil	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Product
9	flow in a quote	present	all water					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 117

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 117