Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 86

Angéy the Tsar arrived in an unknown town and engaged himself with a peasant to reap the harvest; and he did not know how to do a peasant’s work; and the peasant discharged him, and he began to weep and sob, and went on his way from that city.

Who acts: Angéy, peasant · What happens: arrive, engage, reap, not know, do, discharge · To what, where: unknown town, Angéy, harvest, work, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Angéy, peasant), 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	Angéy	Angéy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 arrived	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Tsar	det
3	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Angéy	appos
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 town	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 town	det
7	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 town	amod
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arrived	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 engaged	cc
10	engaged	engage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arrived	conj
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 engaged	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 peasant	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 peasant	det
14	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 engaged	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 reap	mark
16	reap	reap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 engaged	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 harvest	det
18	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reap	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 know	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 know	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 know	nsubj
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 know	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 know	advmod
24	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 arrived	conj
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 do	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 do	mark
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 know	ccomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 peasant	det
29	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 work	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 peasant	case
31	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 do	obj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 discharged	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 discharged	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 peasant	det
35	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 discharged	nsubj
36	discharged	discharge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arrived	conj
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 discharged	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 began	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 began	cc
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 began	nsubj
41	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 discharged	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 weep	mark
43	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 began	xcomp
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 sob	cc
45	sob	sob	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 weep	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 went	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 went	cc
48	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arrived	conj
49	on	on	ADP	_	51 way	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 way	nmod:poss
51	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 went	obl
52	from	from	ADP	_	54 city	case
53	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	54 city	det
54	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 went	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	Angéy		a unknown town		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	engage	past	Angéy not said here	Angéy		with a peasant	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	reap	to-infinitive	Angéy not said here	the harvest			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harvest=Theme
4	not know	past · do-support	Angéy				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do	to-infinitive		a peasant's work			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
6	discharge	past	the peasant	Angéy			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7	begin	past	peasant				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	weep	to-infinitive	peasant not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	sob	infinitive	peasant not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	go	past	Angéy not said here		Tsar's way	from that city	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from city=Initial_Location
11	work		a peasant				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 86

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 86