Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 27
So the peasant went to his neighbour and said, “Can you lend me a car and a pair of oxen for a short time, and I will do a week’s work for them?”
Who acts: peasant, you, week · What happens: go, say, lend, do, work · To what, where: neighbour, car, peasant, work · 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, you, week), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 peasant | det |
| 3 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 neighbour | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 7 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lend | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 lend | punct |
| 12 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 lend | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 lend | nsubj |
| 14 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 lend | iobj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 car | det |
| 17 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lend | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pair | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pair | det |
| 20 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 car | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 oxen | case |
| 22 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 pair | nmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 time | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 time | det |
| 25 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 time | amod |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lend | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 do | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 do | cc |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 do | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 do | aux |
| 31 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 lend | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 week | det |
| 33 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 work | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 33 week | case |
| 35 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 do | obj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 them | case |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 do | obl |
| 38 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the peasant | peasant's neighbour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to neighbour=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the peasant not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | lend in a quote | can | you | a car and a pair of oxen | the peasant = peasant | time | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient car=Theme | ||
| 4 | do in a quote | future | the peasant = peasant | a week's work | for oxen = ox | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | work in a quote | a week | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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