Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 51

He took the oxen back to his neighbour, and he began to set up house again, bought a wood, built a big house, and became twice as rich as his brother.

Who acts: peasant · What happens: take back, begin, set up, buy, build, become · To what, where: oxen, neighbour, house, wood, big house

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 oxen	det
4	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	2 took	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 neighbour	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 neighbour	nmod:poss
8	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 began	nsubj
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 set	mark
14	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 set	compound:prt
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 set	obj
17	again	again	ADV	_	14 set	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bought	punct
19	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 wood	det
21	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bought	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 built	punct
23	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 bought	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 house	det
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 house	amod
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 built	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 became	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 became	cc
29	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
30	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 rich	advmod
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 rich	advmod
32	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 became	xcomp
33	as	as	ADP	_	35 brother	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 brother	nmod:poss
35	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 rich	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take back	past	peasant	the oxen	peasant's neighbour			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ox=Theme to neighbour=Destination
2	begin	past	peasant					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	set up	to-infinitive	peasant not said here	house		again		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient house=Result
4	buy	past		a wood				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
5	build	past		a big house				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product
6	become	past	peasant not said here				rich property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 51

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 51