Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 127

In a certain kingdom, in a certain State, there once lived a rich peasant, and he had much money and bread; he used to lend money on interest to the poor husbandmen of his village.

Who acts: peasant · What happens: live, have, use, lend · To what, where: rich peasant, certain kingdom, much money, money, poor husbandmen, interest

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 kingdom	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kingdom	det
3	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kingdom	amod
4	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lived	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 State	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 State	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 State	det
8	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 State	amod
9	State	State	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kingdom	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kingdom	punct
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 once	advmod
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 lived	advmod
13	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 peasant	det
15	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 peasant	amod
16	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lived	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lived	conj
21	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 money	amod
22	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bread	cc
24	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 money	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 used	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 used	nsubj
27	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lived	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 lend	mark
29	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 used	xcomp
30	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lend	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 interest	case
32	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lend	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	36 husbandmen	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 husbandmen	det
35	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 husbandmen	amod
36	husbandmen	husbandman	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 lend	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 village	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 village	nmod:poss
39	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 husbandmen	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		a rich peasant		a certain kingdom; there	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme peasant=Location
2	have	past	peasant	much money and bread				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
3	use	past	peasant					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	lend	to-infinitive	peasant not said here	money	the poor husbandmen of peasant's village	interest		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Theme to husbandman=Recipient

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 34, sentence 127

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 127