Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 123
“You can sow wheat, wait until it grows up, harvest it, thresh it, turn it into flour, make five stones of bread, eat the bread, and then set out on the hunt, and we shall succeed.”
Who acts: You, wheat, we · What happens: sow, wait, grow up, harvest, thresh, turn · To what, where: wheat, flour, five stones, bread, hunt
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, wheat, we), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sow | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 sow | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sow | aux |
| 4 | sow | sow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sow | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wait | punct |
| 7 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sow | conj |
| 8 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 10 grows | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 grows | nsubj |
| 10 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wait | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 grows | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 harvest | punct |
| 13 | harvest | harvest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wait | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 harvest | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thresh | punct |
| 16 | thresh | thresh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 harvest | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thresh | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 turn | punct |
| 19 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sow | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 turn | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 flour | case |
| 22 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 turn | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sow | conj |
| 25 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 stones | nummod |
| 26 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 make | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 bread | case |
| 28 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stones | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 eat | punct |
| 30 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 sow | parataxis |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 bread | det |
| 32 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 eat | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 set | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 set | cc |
| 35 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 set | advmod |
| 36 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 30 eat | conj |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 set | compound:prt |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 hunt | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 hunt | det |
| 40 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 set | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 succeed | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 succeed | cc |
| 43 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 succeed | nsubj |
| 44 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 succeed | aux |
| 45 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sow | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sow | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sow in a quote | can | You | wheat | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wait in a quote | infinitive | You not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grow up in a quote | present | wheat | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | harvest in a quote | infinitive | You not said here | wheat | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | thresh in a quote | infinitive | You not said here | wheat | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | turn in a quote | infinitive | You not said here | wheat | flour | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into flour=Trajectory | |||
| 7 | make in a quote | infinitive | You not said here | five stones of bread | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stone=Product | ||||
| 8 | eat in a quote | infinitive | the bread | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient | |||||
| 9 | set out in a quote | infinitive | the hunt | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 10 | succeed in a quote | shall | we | vn succeed-74-1 «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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