Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 98
And with this the dispute was ended: Elijah the Prophet was reconciled, and ceased persecuting the peasant with hail-storms, so that he lived a merry life from that day and honoured both name-days equally.
Who acts: dispute, peasant · What happens: be, reconcile, cease, persecute, live, honour · To what, where: Elijah, peasant, merry life
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 (dispute, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ended | cc |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 dispute | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 dispute | det |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dispute | det |
| 5 | dispute | dispute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ended | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ended | cop |
| 7 | ended | ended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 reconciled | punct |
| 9 | Elijah | Elijah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 reconciled | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Prophet | det |
| 11 | Prophet | Prophet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Elijah | appos |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 reconciled | aux:pass |
| 13 | reconciled | reconcile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ended | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ceased | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ceased | cc |
| 16 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 reconciled | conj |
| 17 | persecuting | persecute | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 ceased | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 peasant | det |
| 19 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 persecuting | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 storms | case |
| 21 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 storms | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 hail | punct |
| 23 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 persecuting | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lived | punct |
| 25 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 28 lived | mark |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 so | fixed |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 lived | nsubj |
| 28 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ceased | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 life | det |
| 30 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 life | amod |
| 31 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lived | obj |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 day | case |
| 33 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 day | det |
| 34 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lived | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 honoured | cc |
| 36 | honoured | honour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 lived | conj |
| 37 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 days | det |
| 38 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 days | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 name | punct |
| 40 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 honoured | obj |
| 41 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 36 honoured | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this dispute | ended property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reconcile | past · passive | Elijah | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cease | past | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | persecute | gerund | the peasant | with hail storms | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent peasant=Patient with storm=Theme | ||||
| 5 | live | past | peasant | a merry life | day | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | |||
| 6 | honour | past | peasant not said here | day | equally property | 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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