Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 17
So the soldier began distributing alms to the needy, to the right and to the left, and he still had money over, however much he gave away!
Who acts: soldier · What happens: begin, distribute, have over, give away · To what, where: alms, needy right, money
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 | _ | 4 began | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | distributing | distribute | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 began | xcomp |
| 6 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 distributing | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 right | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 right | det |
| 9 | needy | needy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 right | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 right | punct |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 right | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 right | det |
| 13 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 distributing | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 left | cc |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 left | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 left | det |
| 17 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 right | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 had | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 had | nsubj |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 had | advmod |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 began | conj |
| 23 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obj |
| 24 | over | over | ADV | _ | 22 had | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 gave | punct |
| 26 | however | however | ADV | _ | 27 much | advmod |
| 27 | much | much | ADV | _ | 29 gave | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 gave | nsubj |
| 29 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 began | conj |
| 30 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 gave | advmod |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the soldier | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | distribute | gerund | the soldier not said here | alms | the needy right and the left | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent alm=Theme to right=Recipient | |||
| 3 | have over | past | soldier | money | still | over property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | ||
| 4 | give away | past | soldier | away property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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