Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 77
Sorrow began early in the morning enticing the merchant into the beerhouse day after day, and much property was drunk away.
Who acts: Sorrow, morning · What happens: begin, entice, drink away · To what, where: merchant, much property
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, morning), 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 | Sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 began | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 morning | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 morning | det |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 began | obl |
| 7 | enticing | entice | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 morning | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 merchant | det |
| 9 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 enticing | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 12 | beerhouse | beerhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 day | compound |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 enticing | obl |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 day | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 drunk | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 drunk | cc |
| 18 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 property | amod |
| 19 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drunk | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 drunk | aux:pass |
| 21 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 began | parataxis |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 drunk | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Sorrow | morning | early property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | entice | gerund | the morning not said here | the merchant | day | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus merchant=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | drink away | past · passive | much property | away property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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