Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 3

The poor man went with his brother, and surmised he would fare very badly, for the sentence would be exile; the poor man is a butt for all, as he cannot give anything.

Who acts: poor man, man, sentence · What happens: go, surmise, fare, be, not give · To what, where: butt, anything

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 (poor man, man, sentence), 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	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 brother	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 brother	nmod:poss
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 surmised	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 surmised	cc
10	surmised	surmise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fare	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 fare	aux
13	fare	fare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 surmised	ccomp
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 badly	advmod
15	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 fare	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 exile	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	22 exile	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sentence	det
19	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 exile	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 exile	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 exile	cop
22	exile	exile	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fare	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 butt	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 butt	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 butt	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 butt	det
29	butt	butt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 surmised	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 all	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 butt	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 give	punct
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 give	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 give	nsubj
35	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 give	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 give	advmod
37	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 surmised	conj
38	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	37 give	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	the poor man		with man's brother	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with brother=Beneficiary
2	surmise	past				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	fare	would	man		badly property	tree rules
4	is	would	the sentence		for exile	tree rules
5	is a	present	the poor man	a butt	for all	tree rules
6	not give	can	man	anything		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 3

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 3