Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 27
So the merchant bargained for it and got it for a silver rouble, took the foal into the courtyard and put it into the stable.
Who acts: merchant · What happens: bargain, get, take, put · To what, where: merchant, thing, foal, courtyard, stable
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 merchant | det |
| 3 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | nsubj |
| 4 | bargained | bargain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 merchant | acl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bargained | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 bargained | cc |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 rouble | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 rouble | det |
| 12 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rouble | amod |
| 13 | rouble | rouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 foal | det |
| 17 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 courtyard | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 courtyard | det |
| 20 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 put | cc |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 took | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 put | obj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 stable | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 stable | det |
| 26 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bargain | participle | the merchant not said here | for thing | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get | past | the merchant | thing | for a silver rouble | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme for rouble=Source | |||
| 3 | take | past | the foal | the courtyard | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foal=Theme into courtyard=Destination | ||||
| 4 | put | infinitive | thing | the stable | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
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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