Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 123
The rich man settled in the town, built himself a fine house, and became a merchant.
Who acts: rich man · What happens: settle, build, become · To what, where: town, man, merchant
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 (rich 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 settled | nsubj |
| 4 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 settled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 built | punct |
| 9 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 settled | conj |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 built | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 12 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 house | amod |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 built | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 became | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 became | cc |
| 16 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 settled | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 merchant | det |
| 18 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 became | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | past | the rich man | the town | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location | ||||
| 2 | build | past | the rich man not said here | man | a fine house obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary house=Product | |||
| 3 | become | past | a merchant | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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