Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 35
The rich man gave him three pecks of malt and poured them into his sack.
Who acts: rich man · What happens: give, pour · To what, where: three pecks, peasant, pecks, sack
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 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 pecks | nummod |
| 7 | pecks | peck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gave | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 malt | case |
| 9 | malt | malt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pecks | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 poured | cc |
| 11 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 poured | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 sack | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sack | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 poured | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the rich man | three pecks of malt | peasant | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient peck=Theme | |||
| 2 | pour | past | the rich man not said here | pecks = peck | man's sack | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into sack=Destination |
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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