Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 135
A moujik went out in pursuit of game one day, and took a favorite dog with him.
Who acts: moujik · What happens: go out, take, pursue · To what, where: pursuit, favorite dog, game
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moujik), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 moujik | det |
| 2 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 pursuit | case |
| 6 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 game | case |
| 8 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pursuit | nmod |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 day | nummod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 dog | det |
| 15 | favorite | favorite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dog | amod |
| 16 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | a moujik | pursuit of game | day | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | take | past | a favorite dog | with dog | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination | ||||
| 3 | pursue | game | nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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