Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 79
Every sheaf yielded him six gallons, and, as soon as he started threshing, he brought them in sheaf by sheaf.”
Who acts: sheaf, NICHOLAS · What happens: yield, start, thresh, bring · To what, where: six gallons, NICHOLAS, gallons, sheaf
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 (sheaf, NICHOLAS), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 sheaf | det |
| 2 | sheaf | sheaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 yielded | nsubj |
| 3 | yielded | yield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 yielded | obj |
| 5 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 gallons | nummod |
| 6 | gallons | gallon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 yielded | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 started | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 started | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 and | punct |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 soon | advmod |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 started | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 started | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 started | nsubj |
| 14 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 yielded | parataxis |
| 15 | threshing | thresh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 started | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brought | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 brought | nsubj |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 started | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 brought | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 sheaf | case |
| 21 | sheaf | sheaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | obl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 sheaf | case |
| 23 | sheaf | sheaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 yielded | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 yielded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yield | past | every sheaf | six gallons | NICHOLAS | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal gallon=Theme | |||
| 2 | start | past | NICHOLAS | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | thresh | gerund | NICHOLAS not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bring | past | NICHOLAS | gallons = gallon | sheaf | by sheaf | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=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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