Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 96
So the poor man went once more to the rich peasant and asked him as a debt for three pecks of every kind of corn.
Who acts: poor man · What happens: go, ask · To what, where: man
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 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 more | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 went | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 peasant | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 peasant | det |
| 10 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 peasant | amod |
| 11 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | iobj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 debt | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 debt | det |
| 17 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 pecks | case |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 pecks | nummod |
| 20 | pecks | peck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 asked | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 kind | case |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 kind | det |
| 23 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pecks | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 corn | case |
| 25 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kind | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the poor man | to the rich peasant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to peasant=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the poor man not said here | man | as a debt; for three pecks of every kind of corn | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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