Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 49
“Oh, yes; about a week ago the peasant sold the field to the pope, and got hard cash for it!
Who acts: peasant · What happens: sell, get · To what, where: field, pope, hard cash
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 sold | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 ago | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 ago | discourse |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 yes | punct |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 week | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 week | det |
| 8 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 12 sold | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 peasant | det |
| 11 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sold | nsubj |
| 12 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 field | det |
| 14 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sold | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 pope | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pope | det |
| 17 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sold | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 got | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 got | cc |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sold | conj |
| 21 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cash | amod |
| 22 | cash | cash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 got | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 got | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 sold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell in a quote | past | the peasant | the field | the pope | ago property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent field=Theme to pope=Recipient | ||
| 2 | get in a quote | past | the peasant not said here | hard cash | for pope | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cash=Theme for it=Source |
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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