--- title: From that day the old man went on trading in precious stones which h… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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, ZAMORÝSH --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/7/98/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/7/) / 98 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:7:98 # text = 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. 1 From from ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 trading trading NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 obj _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 21 very very ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ _ 23 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 enriched enrich VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 27 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 26 obj _ _ 28 inscribed inscribe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 xcomp _ _ 29 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 merchants merchant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ’ 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 guild guild NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 36 up up ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 hired hire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 amod _ _ 41 apprentices apprentice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 45 up up ADP RP _ 44 compound:prt _ _ 46 seafaring seafaring NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 49 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 advcl _ _ 50 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 51 wares ware NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 obj _ _ 52 into into ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 foreign foreign ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/7/97/) - next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/7/99/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/7/)