Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 107
His shirt weighed fifteen _pud_, and his hat ten _pud_, and his stick was ten _sazhéns_ long.
Who acts: shirt, stick · What happens: weigh, be · To what, where: fifteen pud, ten sazhéns
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shirt, stick), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 shirt | nmod:poss |
| 2 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 weighed | nsubj |
| 3 | weighed | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 pud | nummod |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 fifteen | punct |
| 6 | pud | pud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 weighed | obj |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 weighed | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pud | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pud | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hat | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pud | compound |
| 12 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hat | flat |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 hat | punct |
| 14 | pud | pud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 weighed | parataxis |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 pud | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sazhéns | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sazhéns | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 stick | nmod:poss |
| 19 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sazhéns | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 sazhéns | cop |
| 21 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 sazhéns | nummod |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 sazhéns | punct |
| 23 | sazhéns | sazhén | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 weighed | parataxis |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 long | punct |
| 25 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 sazhéns | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 weighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weigh | past | passer's shirt | fifteen pud | hat pud parataxis | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pud=Value | |||
| 2 | is a | past | passer's stick | ten sazhéns | long 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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