Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 71

“Stop a bit,” said the Prophet Elijah, “I’ll take all the good out of it; out of all the peasant’s ricks he shall not thresh more than six gallons at a time.”

Who acts: Prophet Elijah, peasant · What happens: stop, say, take, not thresh · To what, where: bit, good, six gallons, peasant ricks · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Prophet Elijah, 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	_	2 Stop	punct
2	Stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Stop	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Stop	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Stop	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Elijah	det
9	Prophet	Prophet	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Elijah	compound
10	Elijah	Elijah	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 take	nsubj
14	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 take	aux
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 good	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 good	det
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 take	obj
19	out	out	ADP	_	21 it	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 good	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 thresh	punct
23	out	out	ADP	_	29 ricks	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	29 ricks	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 peasant	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 peasant	det
27	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ricks	compound
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 peasant	case
29	ricks	rick	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 thresh	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 thresh	nsubj
31	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 thresh	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 thresh	advmod
33	thresh	thresh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 take	conj
34	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	36 six	advmod
35	than	than	ADP	_	34 more	fixed
36	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 gallons	nummod
37	gallons	gallon	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 thresh	obj
38	at	at	ADP	_	40 time	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 time	det
40	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 thresh	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	stop in a quote	infinitive		a bit			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality bit=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	the Prophet Elijah				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take in a quote	future	the Prophet Elijah = elijah	all good out bit			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Theme
4	not thresh in a quote	shall	peasant	six gallons	peasant ricks	time	tree rules

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 26, sentence 71

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Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 71