Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 30

Then the peasant made a compromise with the poor man, gave him fifty roubles, a cow and a calf, and a mare with a foal, and four quarters of corn, and settled matters with him.

Who acts: peasant · What happens: make, give, settle · To what, where: compromise, fifty roubles, man, matters

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 (peasant), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 made	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 peasant	det
3	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 compromise	det
6	compromise	compromise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 man	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	iobj
14	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 roubles	nummod
15	roubles	rouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 gave	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cow	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 cow	det
18	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 roubles	appos
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 calf	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 calf	det
21	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cow	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 mare	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 mare	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 mare	det
25	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 foal	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 foal	det
28	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mare	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 quarters	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 quarters	cc
31	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 quarters	nummod
32	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 corn	case
34	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 quarters	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 settled	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 settled	cc
37	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
38	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 settled	obj
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 settled	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the peasant	a compromise		then	with the poor man; a mare with a foal obl; four quarters of corn obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compromise=Product
2	give	past	the peasant not said here	fifty roubles	man			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rouble=Theme
3	settle	past	the peasant not said here	matters			with man	vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent matter=Theme with he=Location

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 30

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 30