Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 141

“Oh,” he thought to himself, “mine is a sorry lot; I spend all my days on my fields; and then, when I look, I am starving, whilst my neighbour is lying all day long on his back, and then he has a big estate and all the profits swim into his pockets.

Who acts: peasant, neighbour, profits · What happens: think, be, spend, look, starve, lie · To what, where: peasant, sorry lot, fields, back, big estate, pockets · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant, neighbour, profits), 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	_	6 thought	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 thought	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thought	nsubj
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 himself	case
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 thought	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lot	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 lot	punct
11	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 lot	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 lot	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lot	det
14	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lot	amod
15	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thought	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 spend	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 spend	nsubj
18	spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	conj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 days	det:predet
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 days	nmod:poss
21	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 spend	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 fields	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 fields	nmod:poss
24	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 spend	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 look	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 look	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 look	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 look	punct
29	when	when	SCONJ	_	31 look	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 look	nsubj
31	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 spend	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 look	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 starving	nsubj
34	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 starving	aux
35	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 look	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 lying	punct
37	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	41 lying	mark
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 neighbour	nmod:poss
39	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 lying	nsubj
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 lying	aux
41	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 look	advcl
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 day	det
43	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 lying	obl:unmarked
44	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 lying	advmod
45	on	on	ADP	_	47 back	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 back	nmod:poss
47	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 lying	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 has	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 has	cc
50	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	52 has	advmod
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 has	nsubj
52	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 spend	parataxis
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 estate	det
54	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 estate	amod
55	estate	estate	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 has	obj
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 swim	cc
57	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	59 profits	det:predet
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 profits	det
59	profits	profit	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 swim	nsubj
60	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 has	conj
61	into	into	ADP	_	63 pockets	case
62	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 pockets	nmod:poss
63	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 swim	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	peasant		peasant				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	peasant	a sorry lot					tree rules
3	spend in a quote	present	peasant				day	on my fields goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent on field=Goal
4	look in a quote	present	peasant				then		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	starve in a quote	present · progressive	peasant						tree rules
6	lie in a quote	present · progressive	my neighbour			peasant's back	day	long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location
7	have in a quote	present	peasant	a big estate			then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent estate=Patient
8	swim in a quote	present	all profits			peasant's pockets			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pocket=Destination

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 141

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 141