Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 130
But in this village there was a peasant who was so poor that there was no poorer to be found.
Who acts: peasant, poorer · What happens: be, find · To what, where: village
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, poorer), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 was | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 village | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 village | det |
| 4 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 peasant | det |
| 8 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 poor | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 poor | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 poor | advmod |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 peasant | acl:relcl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 was | mark |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 poor | advcl |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 poorer | det |
| 17 | poorer | poor | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 was | nsubj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 found | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 found | aux:pass |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 poorer | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a peasant | this village; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a peasant | poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | past | no poorer | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive · passive | no poorer not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» |
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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