Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 18
And he commanded the peasant to give his wife to the poor peasant until another son was born.
Who acts: Judge · What happens: command, give, bear · To what, where: peasant, wife, poor peasant, son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Judge), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 commanded | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 commanded | nsubj |
| 3 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 peasant | det |
| 5 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 commanded | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 give | mark |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 commanded | xcomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 peasant | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 peasant | det |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 peasant | amod |
| 13 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obl |
| 14 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 18 born | mark |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 son | det |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 born | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 born | aux:pass |
| 18 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 give | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | Judge | the peasant | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent peasant=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | Judge not said here | Judge's wife | the poor peasant | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Theme to peasant=Recipient | |||
| 3 | bear | past · passive | another son | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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