Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 62
The peasant bound up sheaf after sheaf, built rick after rick; carted it away and stacked it.
Who acts: peasant · What happens: bind up, build, cart away, stack · To what, where: peasant, rick
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 peasant | det |
| 2 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carted | nsubj |
| 3 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 peasant | acl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 bound | compound:prt |
| 5 | sheaf | sheaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bound | compound |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 sheaf | case |
| 7 | sheaf | sheaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bound | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 built | punct |
| 9 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 peasant | acl |
| 10 | rick | rick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 built | obj |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 rick | case |
| 12 | rick | rick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rick | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 carted | punct |
| 14 | carted | cart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 carted | obj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 carted | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stacked | cc |
| 18 | stacked | stack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 carted | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stacked | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 carted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bind up | participle | the peasant not said here | after sheaf | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | build | participle | the peasant not said here | rick | after rick | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rick=Product | |||
| 3 | cart away | past | the peasant | rick | away property | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | stack | past | the peasant not said here | rick | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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