Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 101
So the poor man went to his hut and became the laughing-stock of the village for sowing his corn in the winter.
Who acts: poor man, village · What happens: go, become, sow, stock · To what, where: hut, laughing stock, corn, village
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man, village), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 hut | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hut | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 became | cc |
| 10 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stock | det |
| 12 | laughing | laughing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stock | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 laughing | punct |
| 14 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 became | xcomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 village | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 village | det |
| 17 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stock | nmod |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 sowing | mark |
| 19 | sowing | sow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 village | acl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 corn | nmod:poss |
| 21 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sowing | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 winter | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 winter | det |
| 24 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sowing | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the poor man | man's hut | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hut=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | become | past | the poor man not said here | the laughing stock of the village | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sow | gerund | the village not said here | man's corn | winter | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent corn=Theme | |||
| 4 | stock | the village | nom stock «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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