Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 182
Once upon a time there was a soldier who had served through three campaigns, but had never earned as much as an addled egg, and was then put on the retired list.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: be, serve, not earn, addle, put · To what, where: three campaigns, much, retired list
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 (soldier), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 was | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 soldier | det |
| 8 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 served | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 served | aux |
| 11 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 soldier | acl:relcl |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 campaigns | case |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 campaigns | nummod |
| 14 | campaigns | campaign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 served | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 earned | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 earned | cc |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 earned | aux |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 earned | advmod |
| 19 | earned | earn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 was | advcl |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 much | advmod |
| 21 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 earned | obj |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 egg | case |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 egg | det |
| 24 | addled | addle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 egg | amod |
| 25 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 much | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 put | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 put | cc |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 put | aux:pass |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 put | advmod |
| 30 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 earned | conj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 list | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 list | det |
| 33 | retired | retired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 list | amod |
| 34 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 put | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a soldier | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | serve | past · perfect | a soldier | three campaigns | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not earn | past · perfect | a soldier not said here | much | as a addled egg | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | |||
| 4 | addle | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | put | past · passive | a soldier not said here | the retired list | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: on list=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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