Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 131

Thus the soldier was left behind, and could not find any home in either place, and for long after that he still had to live and go on living in the white world.

Who acts: soldier · What happens: leave behind, not find, have, live, go · To what, where: soldier, home, place, white world

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	5 left	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soldier	det
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 left	aux:pass
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	behind	behind	ADV	_	5 left	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 find	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 find	cc
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 find	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 find	advmod
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 left	advcl
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 home	det
13	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 find	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 place	case
15	either	either	CCONJ	_	16 place	cc:preconj
16	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 home	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 long	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 long	cc
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 long	case
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 find	advmod
21	after	after	SCONJ	_	25 had	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 after	fixed
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
24	still	still	ADV	_	25 had	advmod
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 long	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 live	mark
27	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 had	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 go	cc
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 live	conj
30	on	on	SCONJ	_	31 living	mark
31	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 go	advcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 world	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 world	det
34	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 world	amod
35	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 living	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave behind	past · passive		the soldier			behind, thus property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	not find	could		any home	place		long property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Topic
3	have	past	soldier			still		tree rules
4	live	to-infinitive	soldier not said here					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go	infinitive	soldier not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	live	gerund	soldier not said here		the white world			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location

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 13, sentence 131

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 131