Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 98
He looked for him everywhere, asked everybody, questioned them, but it was no good, and all trace had vanished.
Who acts: sign, champion, trace · What happens: look, ask, question, be, vanish · To what, where: everybody, SMITH
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sign, champion, trace), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | obl |
| 5 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 2 looked | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 8 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 asked | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 questioned | punct |
| 10 | questioned | question | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 questioned | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 good | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 good | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 good | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 good | cop |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 good | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 vanished | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 vanished | cc |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 trace | det |
| 21 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 vanished | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 vanished | aux |
| 23 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 good | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | sign | for husband; everywhere property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | everybody | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everybody=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | question speech: other | past | SMITH | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | is | past | champion | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | vanish | past · perfect | all trace | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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