Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 67
So they set to work: one of them made the sables ready and sewed the _shúba_, one of them worked the forge and moulded the buttons, and one of them sewed the buttonholes, and in a minute, wondrously, the _shúba_ was made.
Who acts: buttonholes, one · What happens: set, work, make, be, sew, mould · To what, where: shúba, forge, buttons, buttonholes
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 (buttonholes, one), 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 set | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 work | mark |
| 5 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 set | xcomp |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 made | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 one | nmod |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ready | det |
| 12 | sables | sable | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 ready | cop |
| 13 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 made | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sewed | cc |
| 15 | sewed | sew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 shúba | det |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 shúba | punct |
| 18 | shúba | shúba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sewed | obj |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 sewed | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 worked | punct |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 worked | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 one | nmod |
| 24 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 forge | det |
| 26 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 worked | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 moulded | cc |
| 28 | moulded | mould | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 worked | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 buttons | det |
| 30 | buttons | button | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 moulded | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sewed | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 sewed | cc |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 sewed | nsubj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 them | case |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 one | nmod |
| 36 | sewed | sew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 buttonholes | det |
| 38 | buttonholes | buttonhole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 sewed | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 made | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 made | cc |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 minute | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 minute | det |
| 43 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 made | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 minute | punct |
| 45 | wondrously | wondrously | ADV | _ | 43 minute | advmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 minute | punct |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 shúba | det |
| 48 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 49 shúba | punct |
| 49 | shúba | shúba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 made | nsubj:pass |
| 50 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 shúba | appos |
| 51 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 made | aux:pass |
| 52 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 made | parataxis |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | present | buttonholes = buttonhole | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | buttonholes = buttonhole not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | past | one of buttonholes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | is | present | one of buttonholes not said here | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sew | past | one of buttonholes not said here | the shúba | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shúba=Product | ||||
| 6 | work | past | one of buttonholes | the forge | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent forge=Material | ||||
| 7 | mould | past | one of buttonholes not said here | the buttons | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | sew | past | one of buttonholes | the buttonholes | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buttonhole=Product | ||||
| 9 | make | past · passive | the shúba | minute | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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