Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 115
So he waited to the very day on which the poor peasant in the previous year had sown his corn, went and took from his bins quarters of different sorts of corn, went out into the fields and scattered it all on the snow.
Who acts: peasant · What happens: wait, sow, go, take, go out, scatter · To what, where: poor peasant, bins quarters, fields, corn, snow
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 waited | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 day | advmod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 sown | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 peasant | det |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 peasant | amod |
| 12 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sown | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 year | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 year | det |
| 15 | previous | previous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 year | amod |
| 16 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 peasant | nmod |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sown | aux |
| 18 | sown | sow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 day | acl:relcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 corn | nmod:poss |
| 20 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sown | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 took | cc |
| 24 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 went | conj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 quarters | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 quarters | nmod:poss |
| 27 | bins | bin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 quarters | compound |
| 28 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 took | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 sorts | case |
| 30 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 sorts | amod |
| 31 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 quarters | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 corn | case |
| 33 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sorts | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 went | punct |
| 35 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 36 | out | out | ADV | _ | 35 went | advmod |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 fields | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 fields | det |
| 39 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 went | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 scattered | cc |
| 41 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 scattered | obj |
| 43 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 it | det |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 snow | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 snow | det |
| 46 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 scattered | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | peasant | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sow | past · perfect · passive | the poor peasant in the previous year | on the day | peasant's corn obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go | past | peasant not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take | past | peasant not said here | peasant's bins quarters of different sorts of corn | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from quarter=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | go out | past | peasant not said here | the fields | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | scatter | past | peasant not said here | corn | the snow | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on snow=Destination | |||
| 7 | sort | corn | nom sort «cognition 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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