Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 173
And the urchin went and hunted up gold from everywhere, turned an entire mine inside out and still found nothing: the soldier had played everything away.
Who acts: urchin · What happens: go, hunt up, turn, find, play away · To what, where: gold, entire mine, nothing, soldier
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (urchin), 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 | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 urchin | det |
| 3 | urchin | urchin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hunted | cc |
| 6 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 hunted | compound:prt |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hunted | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 everywhere | case |
| 10 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 hunted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 turned | punct |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 mine | det |
| 14 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mine | amod |
| 15 | mine | mine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turned | obj |
| 16 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 17 out | advmod |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 turned | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 found | cc |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 found | advmod |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 found | obj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 played | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 soldier | det |
| 24 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 played | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 played | aux |
| 26 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 nothing | conj |
| 27 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 26 played | obj |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 played | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the urchin | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hunt up | past | the urchin not said here | gold | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | the urchin not said here | a entire mine | out property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mine=Theme | |||
| 4 | find | past | the urchin not said here | nothing | still | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | |||
| 5 | play away | past · perfect · passive | the soldier | everything obj; away property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary everything=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.
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