Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 59
The old man carried on trade prosperously and profitably; and one day he said: “Ivánushka, your trade does not altogether suit me; for you trade in tobacco, and God loves not smoking, nor does He love tobacconists.
Who acts: old man, trade, you, God, man, your · What happens: carry, say, not suit, trade, love, not smoke · To what, where: old man, trade, tobacco, Ivánushka, tobacconists · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old man, trade, you, God), 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 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 4 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 man | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 trade | case |
| 6 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | obl |
| 7 | prosperously | prosperously | ADV | _ | 4 carried | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 profitably | cc |
| 9 | profitably | profitably | ADV | _ | 7 prosperously | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 day | nummod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Ivánushka | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Ivánushka | punct |
| 18 | Ivánushka | Ivánushka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 suit | punct |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 trade | nmod:poss |
| 21 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 suit | nsubj |
| 22 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 suit | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 suit | advmod |
| 24 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 25 suit | advmod |
| 25 | suit | suit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 Ivánushka | parataxis |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 suit | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 trade | punct |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 trade | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 trade | nsubj |
| 30 | trade | trade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 suit | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 tobacco | case |
| 32 | tobacco | tobacco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 trade | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 loves | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 loves | cc |
| 35 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 loves | nsubj |
| 36 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Ivánushka | acl:relcl |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 smoking | advmod |
| 38 | smoking | smoke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 loves | advcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 love | punct |
| 40 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 43 love | cc |
| 41 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 love | aux |
| 42 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 love | nsubj |
| 43 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 loves | conj |
| 44 | tobacconists | tobacconist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 love | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | participle | the old man not said here | trade | prosperously property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | day | man nsubj; Ivánushka nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | not suit in a quote | present · do-support | your trade | the old man = man | altogether property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | trade in a quote | present | you | tobacco | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | love in a quote | present | God | Ivánushka not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ivánushka=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | not smoke in a quote | gerund | God not said here | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | love in a quote | present · do-support | man | tobacconists | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tobacconist=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | trade in a quote | your | nom trade «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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