Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 128

And, if he gave corn, then it had to be returned in full in the summer; and in addition to that, for every three pecks the debtor had to work two days on the lord’s field.

Who acts: peasant, corn, debtor, three pecks · What happens: give, have, return, work · To what, where: corn, addition, full, three pecks

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, corn, debtor, three pecks), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 gave	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 gave	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 had	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gave	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	13 returned	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 returned	aux:pass
13	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 had	xcomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 full	case
15	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 returned	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 summer	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 summer	det
18	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 returned	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 addition	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 addition	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 addition	case
22	addition	addition	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 that	case
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 addition	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pecks	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 pecks	case
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	29 pecks	det
28	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 pecks	nummod
29	pecks	peck	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 addition	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 debtor	det
31	debtor	debtor	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 had	nsubj
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 pecks	acl:relcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 work	mark
34	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 had	xcomp
35	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 days	nummod
36	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 work	obj
37	on	on	ADP	_	41 field	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 lord	det
39	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 field	nmod:poss
40	’s	's	PART	_	39 lord	case
41	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 work	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	peasant	corn	addition to that and every three pecks			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Theme
2	have	past	corn			then		tree rules
3	return	to-infinitive · passive	corn not said here		full	summer		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»
4	have	past	the debtor	every three pecks not said here				tree rules
5	work	to-infinitive	every three pecks not said here			day	on the lord's field	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on field=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 128

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 128