Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 113
The _boyár_ saw he was getting the worst of the bargain and sent for more money from the house.
Who acts: boyár · What happens: see, get, send · To what, where: house
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boyár), 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 boyár | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 boyár | punct |
| 3 | boyár | boyár | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 getting | nsubj |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 boyár | acl:relcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 getting | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 getting | aux |
| 8 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 worst | det |
| 10 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 getting | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bargain | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bargain | det |
| 13 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 worst | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sent | cc |
| 15 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 getting | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 money | case |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 money | amod |
| 18 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | obl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 getting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the boyár not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | get | past · progressive | the boyár | bad property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | send | participle | the boyár not said here | the house | for more money | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from house=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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