Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 105
“In a village near by a poor peasant has had a son; how will you reward him?”
Who acts: you · What happens: have, reward · To what, where: son, village
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 village | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 village | det |
| 4 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obl |
| 5 | near | near | ADV | _ | 4 village | advmod |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 peasant | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 peasant | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 peasant | amod |
| 9 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 village | nmod |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 had | aux |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 son | det |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 reward | punct |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 reward | advmod |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 reward | aux |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 reward | nsubj |
| 18 | reward | reward | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 had | parataxis |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 reward | obj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 reward | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 reward | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present · perfect | a son | a village by a poor peasant | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reward in a quote | future | you | son | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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