Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 13
When they came into the town, the master said: “I bought of this peasant a golden stirrup.
Who acts: dolt, master · What happens: come, say, buy · To what, where: town, golden stirrup · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dolt, master), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | advcl |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 master | det |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 bought | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 bought | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 bought | nsubj |
| 14 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 peasant | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 peasant | det |
| 17 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bought | obl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 stirrup | det |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 stirrup | amod |
| 20 | stirrup | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bought | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | dolt | the town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | buy in a quote | past | the master = master | a golden stirrup | of this peasant | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stirrup=Theme |
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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