Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 79
And he gave all his property to the poor and went to live in his elder son’s kingdom.
Who acts: man · What happens: give, go, live · To what, where: property, poor, kingdom
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 (man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 gave | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 property | det:predet |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 property | nmod:poss |
| 6 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 poor | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 poor | det |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gave | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 live | mark |
| 13 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 went | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 kingdom | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 16 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 son | amod |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 son | case |
| 19 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 live | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | man | man's property | the poor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent property=Theme to poor=Recipient | |||
| 2 | go | past | man not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive | man not said here | man's elder son's kingdom | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kingdom=Location |
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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