Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 76
So the old man got up himself, and himself did all the work; he went out and looked after the labourers, and for all that he could only earn a few pence.
Who acts: old man, son · What happens: get up, do, go out, look, earn · To what, where: son, work, few pence
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 (old man, son), 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 | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 got | compound:prt |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 got | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 did | cc |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 did | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 work | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 work | det |
| 14 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 did | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | parataxis |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 looked | cc |
| 20 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 went | conj |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 labourers | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 labourers | det |
| 23 | labourers | labourer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 looked | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 earn | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 earn | cc |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 all | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 earn | det:predet |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 earn | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 earn | nsubj |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 earn | aux |
| 31 | only | only | ADV | _ | 32 earn | advmod |
| 32 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 got | parataxis |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 pence | det |
| 34 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 pence | amod |
| 35 | pence | pence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 earn | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the old man | son | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | do | past | son | all work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | go out | past | son | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | look | past | son not said here | after the labourers | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | earn | could | son | a few pence | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pence=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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