Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 44
One third of the money you are to spend on the funeral, the second on the Requiem Mass, and with the third buy a shop and go into trade.
Who acts: One third · What happens: be, spend, buy, go · To what, where: funeral, shop, trade
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 (One third), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 third | nummod |
| 2 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 are | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 money | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 money | det |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 third | nmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 are | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 spend | mark |
| 9 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 are | xcomp |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 funeral | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 funeral | det |
| 12 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spend | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 second | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 second | det |
| 15 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 funeral | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 Mass | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Mass | det |
| 18 | Requiem | Requiem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Mass | compound |
| 19 | Mass | Mass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 second | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 buy | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 buy | cc |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 third | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 third | det |
| 24 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 buy | obl |
| 25 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 are | parataxis |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 shop | det |
| 27 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 buy | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 go | cc |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 25 buy | conj |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 trade | case |
| 31 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 go | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | One third of the money | you nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spend | to-infinitive | One third of the money not said here | on the funeral goal | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent on funeral=Goal | ||||
| 3 | buy | infinitive | a shop | with the third | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | trade | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into trade=Initial_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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