Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 120
So the _boyár_ hesitated: he was very sorry to lose his money and for himself, but he could not help himself, and so they agreed.
Who acts: boyár, goods · What happens: hesitate, be, lose, not help, agree · To what, where: boyár, money
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, goods), 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 | _ | 6 hesitated | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boyár | det |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 boyár | punct |
| 4 | boyár | boyár | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hesitated | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 hesitated | punct |
| 6 | hesitated | hesitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 sorry | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sorry | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sorry | cop |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 sorry | advmod |
| 11 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hesitated | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 lose | mark |
| 13 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sorry | xcomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 money | nmod:poss |
| 15 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lose | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 himself | cc |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 himself | case |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 lose | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 help | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 help | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 help | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 help | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 help | advmod |
| 24 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sorry | conj |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 help | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 agreed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 agreed | cc |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 agreed | advmod |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 agreed | nsubj |
| 30 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hesitated | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hesitated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hesitate | participle · passive | the boyár | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | past | boyár | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lose | to-infinitive | boyár not said here | boyár's money | boyár conj | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | not help | could | boyár | boyár | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | agree speech: agree | past | goods | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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