Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 19
So the soldier lived for fourteen years, and on the fifteenth year the Tsar’s exchequer gave out.
Who acts: soldier, exchequer · What happens: live, give out
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, exchequer), 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 lived | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 years | case |
| 6 | fourteen | fourteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lived | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 year | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 year | det |
| 12 | fifteenth | fifteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 year | amod |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Tsar | det |
| 15 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 exchequer | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Tsar | case |
| 17 | exchequer | exchequer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lived | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 gave | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the soldier | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give out | past | the Tsar's exchequer | year | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: 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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