Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 97
They valued it and valued it, and it was at last bought for five hundred roubles.
Who acts: merchants, stone · What happens: value, be, buy · To what, where: stone
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 (merchants, stone), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 valued | nsubj |
| 2 | valued | value | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 valued | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 valued | cc |
| 5 | valued | value | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 valued | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 valued | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 last | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 last | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 last | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 last | cop |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 valued | conj |
| 13 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 last | acl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 roubles | case |
| 15 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 hundred | compound |
| 16 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 roubles | nummod |
| 17 | roubles | rouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bought | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 valued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | value | past | merchants = merchant | stone | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | value | past | merchants = merchant not said here | stone | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | stone | last property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | buy | participle | for hundred roubles | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for rouble=Beneficiary |
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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