Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 188
The very instant he got there he took out five hundred roubles, and sent his man up to the gipsy, telling him to give the money to him and to take the golden stirrup.
Who acts: instant · What happens: get, take out, send, tell, give, take · To what, where: instant, hundred roubles, man, money, golden stirrup · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (instant), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 instant | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 instant | advmod |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 instant | acl:relcl |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 got | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 took | compound:prt |
| 10 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hundred | compound |
| 11 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 roubles | nummod |
| 12 | roubles | rouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 took | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sent | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sent | cc |
| 15 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 man | nmod:poss |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | obj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 gipsy | case |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 gipsy | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 gipsy | det |
| 21 | gipsy | gipsy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 telling | punct |
| 23 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 sent | advcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 telling | iobj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 give | mark |
| 26 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 telling | xcomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 money | det |
| 28 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 give | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 give | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 take | cc |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 take | mark |
| 33 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 give | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 stirrup | det |
| 35 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 stirrup | amod |
| 36 | stirrup | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 take | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | instant | the instant not said here | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer instant=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | take out | past | the instant | hundred roubles | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rouble=Theme | ||||
| 3 | send | past | the instant not said here | instant's man | up the gipsy | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | gerund | the instant not said here | instant | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | the instant not said here | the money | instant | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Theme to he=Recipient | |||
| 6 | take | to-infinitive | the instant not said here | the golden stirrup | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stirrup=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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