Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 24
Judge Shemyák sent his servant to the poor man to ask for the three hundred roubles.
Who acts: you, Shemyák · What happens: judge, send, ask · To what, where: servant, poor man
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 (you, Shemyák), 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 | Judge | judge | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Shemyák | Shemyák | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Judge | ccomp |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 servant | nmod:poss |
| 5 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 man | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 ask | mark |
| 11 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 roubles | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 roubles | det |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 hundred | compound |
| 15 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 roubles | nummod |
| 16 | roubles | rouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ask | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Judge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | judge | imperative | you not said here | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | send | past | Shemyák | Shemyák's servant | the poor man | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent servant=Theme to man=Destination | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | Shemyák not said here | for the hundred roubles | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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