Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 14
So he took a room, never cut his hair, never shaved, never wiped his nose, never changed his garb, and he lived on and grew wealthy, so wealthy he did not know what to do with his money.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: take, not cut, not shave, not wipe, not change, live on · To what, where: room, hair, nose, garb · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37. 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 room | det |
| 5 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cut | punct |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 cut | advmod |
| 8 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hair | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cut | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shaved | punct |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 shaved | advmod |
| 13 | shaved | shave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 cut | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wiped | punct |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 wiped | advmod |
| 16 | wiped | wipe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 nose | nmod:poss |
| 18 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wiped | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 changed | punct |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 changed | advmod |
| 21 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 garb | nmod:poss |
| 23 | garb | garb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 changed | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lived | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 lived | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 lived | nsubj |
| 27 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADV | _ | 27 lived | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 grew | cc |
| 30 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 lived | conj |
| 31 | wealthy | wealthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 grew | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 wealthy | punct |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 wealthy | advmod |
| 34 | wealthy | wealthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 took | parataxis |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 know | nsubj |
| 36 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 know | aux |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 know | advmod |
| 38 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 wealthy | parataxis |
| 39 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 41 do | obj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 do | mark |
| 41 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 know | ccomp |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 money | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 money | nmod:poss |
| 44 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 do | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | soldier | a room | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not cut | past | soldier's hair | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hair=Product | |||||
| 3 | not shave | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | not wipe | past | soldier not said here | soldier's nose | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent nose=Source | ||||
| 5 | not change | past | soldier not said here | soldier's garb | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garb=Patient | ||||
| 6 | live on | past | soldier | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | grow | past | soldier not said here | wealthy property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | not know | past · do-support | soldier | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | do | to-infinitive | with soldier's money; what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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