Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 47
The Sea Tsar has bidden me thresh clean thirty hayricks of barley without destroying a hayrick or a single sheaf, and all in a single night.”
Who acts: Sea Tsar · What happens: bid, thresh, destroy · To what, where: me, clean thirty hayricks, hayrick
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sea Tsar), 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 Tsar | det |
| 2 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Tsar | compound |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bidden | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bidden | aux |
| 5 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bidden | obj |
| 7 | thresh | thresh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bidden | xcomp |
| 8 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hayricks | amod |
| 9 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 hayricks | nummod |
| 10 | hayricks | hayrick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thresh | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 barley | case |
| 12 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hayricks | nmod |
| 13 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 14 destroying | mark |
| 14 | destroying | destroy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 thresh | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hayrick | det |
| 16 | hayrick | hayrick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 destroying | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 sheaf | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sheaf | det |
| 19 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sheaf | amod |
| 20 | sheaf | sheaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hayrick | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 all | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 all | cc |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 bidden | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 night | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 night | det |
| 26 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 night | amod |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 all | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bidden | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | present · perfect | the Sea Tsar | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | thresh | infinitive | the Sea Tsar not said here | clean thirty hayricks of barley | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | destroy | gerund | the Sea Tsar not said here | a hayrick or a single sheaf | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hayrick=Patient |
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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