Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 17
And in the morning Sorrow groaned yet further, and reduced the master to further drinking; and the peasant drank away his ploughshare and his plough.
Who acts: Sorrow, peasant · What happens: groan, reduce, drink away · To what, where: master, further drinking, ploughshare
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sorrow, peasant), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 groaned | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 groaned | obl |
| 5 | Sorrow | Sorrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 groaned | nsubj |
| 6 | groaned | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 8 further | advmod |
| 8 | further | further | ADV | _ | 6 groaned | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 reduced | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 reduced | cc |
| 11 | reduced | reduce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 groaned | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 master | det |
| 13 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reduced | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 drinking | case |
| 15 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 drinking | amod |
| 16 | drinking | drinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reduced | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 drank | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 drank | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 peasant | det |
| 20 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drank | nsubj |
| 21 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 groaned | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 drank | advmod |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 ploughshare | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ploughshare | ploughshare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drank | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 plough | cc |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 plough | nmod:poss |
| 27 | plough | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ploughshare | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 groaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | groan | past | Sorrow | yet; morning | further property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | reduce | past | Sorrow not said here | the master | to further drinking goal | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer master=Patient to drinking=Goal | |||
| 3 | drink away | past | the peasant | peasant's ploughshare and peasant's plough | away property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ploughshare=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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