Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 142
So the poor man went home, gave his wife the loaf of bread, and said: “Listen, wife.
Who acts: poor man · What happens: go, give, say, listen · To what, where: loaf, 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 (poor 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 | 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 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 loaf | det |
| 12 | loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bread | case |
| 14 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 loaf | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 Listen | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Listen | punct |
| 20 | Listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wife | punct |
| 22 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Listen | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the poor man | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the poor man not said here | the loaf of bread | man's wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient loaf=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the poor man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | listen in a quote | infinitive | wife | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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