Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 66
And Iván obeyed the old man, bought a ship, loaded it with wares, and gave his house to the poor, setting one of them in as the master until he should come back himself.
Who acts: Iván · What happens: obey, buy, load, give, set in, come back · To what, where: old man, ship, house, poor, one, Iván
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 (Iván), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 obeyed | cc |
| 2 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 obeyed | nsubj |
| 3 | obeyed | obey | 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 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 obeyed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bought | punct |
| 8 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 obeyed | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ship | det |
| 10 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bought | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 loaded | punct |
| 12 | loaded | load | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bought | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 loaded | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 wares | case |
| 15 | wares | ware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 loaded | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 obeyed | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 house | nmod:poss |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 poor | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 poor | det |
| 23 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gave | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 setting | punct |
| 25 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 gave | advcl |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 setting | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 one | nmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 setting | compound:prt |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 master | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 master | det |
| 32 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 setting | obl |
| 33 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 36 come | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 come | nsubj |
| 35 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 come | aux |
| 36 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 setting | advcl |
| 37 | back | back | ADV | _ | 36 come | advmod |
| 38 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 come | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past | Iván | the old man | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | buy | past | Iván not said here | a ship | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme | ||||
| 3 | load | past | Iván not said here | ship | with wares | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with ware=Theme | |||
| 4 | give | past | Iván not said here | Iván's house | the poor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent house=Theme to poor=Recipient | |||
| 5 | set in | gerund | Iván not said here | one of wares | as the master | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient one=Result | |||
| 6 | come back | should | Iván | Iván | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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