Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 129
“With a message from men wherewith each man should live, and wherewith each man should busy himself.”
Who acts: man · What happens: live
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | _ | 11 live | punct |
| 2 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 message | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 message | det |
| 4 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 live | obl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 men | case |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 message | nmod |
| 7 | wherewith | wherewith | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 live | advmod |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 live | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 live | aux |
| 11 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 busy | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 busy | cc |
| 14 | wherewith | wherewith | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 busy | advmod |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 busy | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 busy | aux |
| 18 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 live | conj |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 busy | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 live | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | should | each man | with a message from men; wherewith property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with message=Location |
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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