Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 25
When they began to feed Alyósha, what was a week’s food for any other babe was a day’s food for him, what was a year’s food for others was a week’s food for him.
Who acts: pope, Alyósha, food · What happens: begin, feed, be · To what, where: food
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 (pope, Alyósha, food), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 feed | mark |
| 5 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | Alyósha | Alyósha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 food | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 food | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 food | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 food | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 week | det |
| 11 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 food | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 week | case |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Alyósha | appos |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 babe | case |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 babe | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 babe | amod |
| 17 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 food | nmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 food | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 day | det |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 food | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 day | case |
| 22 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 food | nsubj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 food | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 food | punct |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 food | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 food | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 year | det |
| 29 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 food | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 year | case |
| 31 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 food | conj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 others | case |
| 33 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 food | nmod |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 food | cop |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 week | det |
| 36 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 food | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 36 week | case |
| 38 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feed | ccomp |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 him | case |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 feed | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | pope | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | feed | to-infinitive | pope not said here | for ALYÓSHA = alyósha | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Alyósha | a week's food | week | for any other babe | tree rules | ||
| 4 | is a | past | Alyósha | a day's food and a year's food | day | for son | tree rules | ||
| 5 | is a | past | a day's food and a year's food | a year's food | year | for others | tree rules | ||
| 6 | is a | past | a day's food and a year's food | a week's food | week | 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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