Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 104
For wherever he went they took him for a robber, and hounded on the dogs.
Who acts: man, people · What happens: go, take, hound · To what, where: man
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, people), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 went | mark |
| 2 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | advcl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 robber | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 robber | det |
| 10 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hounded | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hounded | cc |
| 13 | hounded | hound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 took | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 dogs | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dogs | det |
| 16 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hounded | obl:agent |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | man | wherever property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | people | man | for a robber | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for robber=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | hound | participle | people not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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