Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 98
From that day the old man went on trading in precious stones which his hen laid him, and he very soon became enriched, had himself inscribed into the merchants’ guild, put up a shop, hired apprentices, and set up seafaring ships to carry his wares into foreign lands.
Who acts: old man, hen, ZAMORÝSHEK · What happens: go, lay, enrich, have, inscribe, put up · To what, where: trading, precious stones, ZAMORÝSHEK, guild, shop, seafaring ships
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, hen, ZAMORÝSHEK), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 trading | case |
| 9 | trading | trading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 stones | case |
| 11 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stones | amod |
| 12 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | obl |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 laid | obj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hen | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 laid | nsubj |
| 16 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stones | acl:relcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 laid | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 enriched | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 enriched | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 enriched | nsubj |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 soon | advmod |
| 22 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 enriched | advmod |
| 23 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 enriched | aux:pass |
| 24 | enriched | enrich | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 went | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 had | punct |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | parataxis |
| 27 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 had | obj |
| 28 | inscribed | inscribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 had | xcomp |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 guild | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 merchants | det |
| 31 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 guild | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 31 merchants | case |
| 33 | guild | guild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 inscribed | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 put | punct |
| 35 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 had | conj |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 35 put | compound:prt |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 shop | det |
| 38 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 put | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 apprentices | punct |
| 40 | hired | hire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 apprentices | amod |
| 41 | apprentices | apprentice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 shop | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 set | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 set | cc |
| 44 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 went | parataxis |
| 45 | up | up | ADP | _ | 44 set | compound:prt |
| 46 | seafaring | seafaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 ships | compound |
| 47 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 set | obj |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 carry | mark |
| 49 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 set | advcl |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 wares | nmod:poss |
| 51 | wares | ware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 carry | obj |
| 52 | into | into | ADP | _ | 54 lands | case |
| 53 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 lands | amod |
| 54 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 carry | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the old man | trading | day | in precious stones | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on trading=Location | ||
| 2 | lay | past | ZAMORÝSHEK's hen | precious stones | ZAMORÝSHEK = zamorýshek obj | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent which=Theme he=Destination | |||
| 3 | enrich | past · passive | ZAMORÝSHEK = zamorýshek | soon property | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 4 | have | past | ZAMORÝSHEK = zamorýshek | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | inscribe | participle | ZAMORÝSHEK = zamorýshek not said here | the merchants's guild | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent into guild=Destination | ||||
| 6 | put up | infinitive | a shop and hired apprentices | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shop=Goal | |||||
| 7 | hire | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | set up | participle | seafaring ships | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient ship=Result | |||||
| 9 | carry | to-infinitive | ZAMORÝSHEK's wares | foreign lands | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ware=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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