Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 9
And from that day everything went upside down in the _boyárs’_ house, and they began looking for some doctor: the good youth dubbed himself a doctor, exorcised the devil, and received good pay.
Who acts: everything, boyárs, good youth · What happens: go down, begin, look, dub, exorcise, receive · To what, where: youth, devil, good pay
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 (everything, boyárs, good youth), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 5 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | upside | upside | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boyárs | det |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 boyárs | punct |
| 12 | boyárs | boyár | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 house | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 12 boyárs | case |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 house | punct |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 began | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 began | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 began | nsubj |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | parataxis |
| 20 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 began | xcomp |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 doctor | case |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 doctor | det |
| 23 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 looking | obl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 dubbed | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 youth | det |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 youth | amod |
| 27 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dubbed | nsubj |
| 28 | dubbed | dub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 began | conj |
| 29 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 dubbed | obj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 doctor | det |
| 31 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dubbed | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 exorcised | punct |
| 33 | exorcised | exorcise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 dubbed | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 devil | det |
| 35 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 exorcised | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 received | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 received | cc |
| 38 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 dubbed | parataxis |
| 39 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 pay | amod |
| 40 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 received | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | everything | day | in the boyárs's house; down, upside property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in house=Attribute | |||
| 2 | begin | past | boyárs = boyár | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | boyárs = boyár not said here | for some doctor | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for doctor=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dub | past | the good youth | youth | a doctor obj | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme doctor=Result | |||
| 5 | exorcise | past | the good youth not said here | the devil | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent devil=Source | ||||
| 6 | receive | past | good pay | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pay=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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