Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 4
“They traded in milk, and they mixed water with their milk; and now for all eternity they must ladle out water.”
Who acts: maidens · What happens: trade, mix, ladle out · To what, where: milk, water
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 (maidens), 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 | _ | 3 traded | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 traded | nsubj |
| 3 | traded | trade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 milk | case |
| 5 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 traded | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mixed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 mixed | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 mixed | nsubj |
| 9 | mixed | mix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 traded | conj |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mixed | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 milk | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 milk | nmod:poss |
| 13 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mixed | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 ladle | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ladle | cc |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 ladle | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 eternity | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 eternity | det |
| 19 | eternity | eternity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ladle | obl |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ladle | nsubj |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 ladle | aux |
| 22 | ladle | ladle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 traded | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 ladle | compound:prt |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ladle | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 traded | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 traded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trade in a quote | past | maidens = maiden | milk | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mix in a quote | past | maidens = maiden | water | with maidens's milk | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient with milk=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | ladle out in a quote | must | maidens = maiden | water | for all eternity; now | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=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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