Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 16
When the harvesting season came on the forty began making the hayricks, and in a single week all the ricks were put up.
Who acts: harvesting season · What happens: harvest, come, begin, make, put up · To what, where: forty, hayricks, ricks
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harvesting season), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 season | det |
| 3 | harvesting | harvest | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 season | amod |
| 4 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 began | advcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 forty | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forty | det |
| 8 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 began | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hayricks | det |
| 12 | hayricks | hayrick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 making | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 put | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 put | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 week | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 week | det |
| 17 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 week | amod |
| 18 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 put | obl |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 ricks | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ricks | det |
| 21 | ricks | rick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 put | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 put | aux:pass |
| 23 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 began | conj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 put | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | harvest | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | come | past | the harvesting season | the forty | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on forty=Location | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | make | gerund | the hayricks | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hayrick=Product | |||||
| 5 | put up | past · passive | all ricks | week | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
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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