Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 70
After the meadow had been battered by hail, the peasant went up to the pope and bought it back at half price.”
Who acts: hail, peasant · What happens: batter, go up, buy back · To what, where: meadow, half price
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 (hail, 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 meadow | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meadow | det |
| 3 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 battered | obl |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 battered | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 battered | aux:pass |
| 6 | battered | batter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 hail | case |
| 8 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 battered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 peasant | det |
| 11 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 battered | parataxis |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 went | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 pope | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pope | det |
| 16 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bought | cc |
| 18 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bought | obj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 bought | advmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 price | case |
| 22 | half | half | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 23 price | amod |
| 23 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bought | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 battered | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 battered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | batter | past · perfect · passive | hail | after the meadow | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go up | past | the peasant | to the pope | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | buy back | past | the peasant not said here | meadow | half price | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at price=Asset |
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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