Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 92

Once upon a time an old man lived in a village with his wife, and they were very poor: they had only one son.

Who acts: old man, men · What happens: live, be, have · To what, where: village, one son

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9. 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, men), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 lived	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	obl
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	nsubj
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 village	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 village	det
11	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 wife	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wife	nmod:poss
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 village	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 poor	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 poor	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 poor	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 poor	cop
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 poor	advmod
20	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lived	conj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lived	conj
24	only	only	ADV	_	25 one	advmod
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 son	nummod
26	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	a old man		a village with servant's wife	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location
2	is	past	men = man			poor property	tree rules
3	have	past	men = man	one son			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 92

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 92