Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 110

Soon the time of harvest came by, and all good folk began to gather their corn, and the old man also went and busied himself, and called his wife to help him.

Who acts: time, good folk, old man · What happens: come by, begin, gather, go, busy, call · To what, where: corn, man, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (time, good folk, old man), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 harvest	case
5	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 time	nmod
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	6 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 folk	det
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 folk	amod
12	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 began	nsubj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 gather	mark
15	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 corn	nmod:poss
17	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gather	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 went	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 man	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 went	nsubj
23	also	also	ADV	_	24 went	advmod
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 busied	cc
26	busied	busy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 went	conj
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 busied	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 called	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 called	cc
30	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 wife	nmod:poss
32	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 called	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 help	mark
34	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 called	advcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 help	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come by	past	the time of harvest			soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	all good folk				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	gather	to-infinitive	all good folk not said here	acres's corn			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Theme
4	go	past	the old man				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	busy	past	the old man not said here	man			tree rules
6	call	past	the time of harvest not said here		man's wife		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient
7	help	to-infinitive	the time of harvest not said here		man		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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 35, sentence 110

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 110