Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 84
“I don’t quite understand this: I put too little malt into it, so I will add some more,” the rich man thought, and he ordered his workmen to put five more sacks into the well.
Who acts: rich man, man, workmen · What happens: not understand, put, add, think, order · To what, where: this, little malt, well, workmen, five more sacks · 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 (rich man, man, workmen), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 understand | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 understand | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 understand | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 understand | advmod |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 understand | advmod |
| 6 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 understand | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 put | nsubj |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 understand | conj |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 little | advmod |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 malt | amod |
| 13 | malt | malt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 add | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 add | advmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 add | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 add | aux |
| 20 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 understand | conj |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 more | det |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 thought | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 more | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 more | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 man | det |
| 26 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 man | amod |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 thought | nsubj |
| 28 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 add | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 ordered | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 ordered | cc |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 ordered | nsubj |
| 32 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 thought | ccomp |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 workmen | nmod:poss |
| 34 | workmen | workman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 ordered | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 put | mark |
| 36 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 ordered | xcomp |
| 37 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 sacks | nummod |
| 38 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 sacks | amod |
| 39 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 put | obj |
| 40 | into | into | ADP | _ | 42 well | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 well | det |
| 42 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 put | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not understand in a quote | present · do-support | the rich man = man | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | put in a quote | past | the rich man = man | little malt | well | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent malt=Goal | |||
| 3 | add speech: assert in a quote | future | the rich man = man | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | the rich man | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | order | past | man | man's workmen | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent workman=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | put not said to happen | to-infinitive | man's workmen not said here | five more sacks | the well | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sack=Goal |
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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