Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 65

So they traded on for three years more, and Iván became so rich that the old man advised him to sell out and cross the seas with his goods.

Who acts: goods, Iván, old man · What happens: trade on, become, advise, sell out, cross · To what, where: Iván, seas

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 (goods, Iván, old man), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 traded	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 traded	nsubj
3	traded	trade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 traded	compound:prt
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 years	case
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 traded	obl
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 traded	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 became	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 became	cc
11	Iván	Iván	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 became	nsubj
12	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 traded	conj
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 rich	advmod
14	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 became	xcomp
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 advised	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 advised	nsubj
19	advised	advise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 rich	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 advised	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 sell	mark
22	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 advised	xcomp
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 sell	compound:prt
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cross	cc
25	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 sell	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 seas	det
27	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 cross	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 goods	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 goods	nmod:poss
30	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	25 cross	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 traded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	trade on	past	goods		year		vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	become	past	Iván			rich property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	advise speech: other	past	the old man	Iván			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	sell out not said to happen	to-infinitive	Iván not said here				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
5	cross	infinitive	Iván not said here	the seas		with Iván's goods	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Patient

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 65

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 65