Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 23
So the peasant took the sarafán, drank it up; and he thought: “Now I have not anything left, neither house, nor clothes, nor anything else for myself or my wife!”
Who acts: peasant · What happens: take, drink up, think, have, leave · To what, where: sarafán, more, clothes, anything · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 peasant | det |
| 3 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sarafán | det |
| 6 | sarafán | sarafán | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 drank | punct |
| 8 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 drank | obj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 drank | compound:prt |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thought | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 17 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 have | advmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 thought | conj |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 anything | advmod |
| 21 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 have | obj |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 anything | acl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 house | punct |
| 24 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 house | det |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 anything | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 clothes | punct |
| 27 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 28 clothes | cc |
| 28 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 thought | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 anything | punct |
| 30 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 31 anything | cc |
| 31 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 thought | parataxis |
| 32 | else | else | ADV | _ | 31 anything | advmod |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 myself | case |
| 34 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 anything | nmod |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 wife | cc |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 wife | nmod:poss |
| 37 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 myself | conj |
| 38 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 37 wife | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the peasant | the sarafán | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sarafán=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drink up | past | the peasant not said here | more | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | peasant | clothes | anything for myself parataxis | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | peasant | anything neither house | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | |||
| 5 | leave in a quote | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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