Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 28

The rich man did not want to give the horse, so he gave him instead five roubles, three quarters of corn, and a milch-goat; and made peace with him for all time.

Who acts: rich man, man · What happens: not want, give, make · To what, where: horse, five roubles, peace

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 (rich man, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 want	advmod
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 give	mark
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gave	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 gave	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gave	nsubj
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 want	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gave	iobj
16	instead	instead	ADV	_	17 five	advmod
17	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 roubles	nummod
18	roubles	rouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 gave	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 quarters	punct
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 quarters	nummod
21	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 roubles	appos
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 corn	case
23	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 quarters	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 goat	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 goat	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 goat	det
27	milch	milch	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 goat	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 milch	punct
29	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 made	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 made	cc
32	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 want	parataxis
33	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 made	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 made	obl
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 time	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 time	det
38	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 made	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	the rich man					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	the rich man not said here	the horse				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
3	give	past	man	five roubles	horse		a milch goat obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rouble=Theme
4	make	past		peace		time	with horse	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product

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 21, sentence 28

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 28