Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 5
The peasant gave the rich man good food and drink, but the poor man nothing.
Who acts: peasant · What happens: give · To what, where: nothing, rich 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 peasant | det |
| 2 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 food | amod |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 drink | cc |
| 10 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 food | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 nothing | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 nothing | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nothing | nsubj |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 gave | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the peasant | nothing the poor man | the rich man good food and drink | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient nothing=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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