Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 121

He began to hunt and to chase after them, and he chased them into such thickets, precipices and mountains as no tale can tell and no pen can describe.

Who acts: war, tale, pen · What happens: begin, hunt, chase, tell, describe · To what, where: peoples, such thickets · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (war, tale, pen), 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 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hunt	mark
4	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 chase	cc
6	to	to	PART	_	7 chase	mark
7	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hunt	conj
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 chase	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 chased	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 chased	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 chased	nsubj
13	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	parataxis
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 chased	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 thickets	case
16	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thickets	amod
17	thickets	thicket	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 chased	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 precipices	punct
19	precipices	precipice	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 thickets	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 mountains	cc
21	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 thickets	conj
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 tell	mark
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 tale	det
24	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tell	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 tell	aux
26	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 chased	advcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 describe	cc
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 pen	det
29	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 describe	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 describe	aux
31	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 tell	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	begin	past	war				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	hunt	to-infinitive	war not said here				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	chase	to-infinitive	war not said here			after peoples = people	vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after they=Theme
4	chase	past	war	peoples = people	such thickets and precipices and mountains		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme into thicket=Trajectory
5	tell speech: assert	can	no tale				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	describe	can	no pen				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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: «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 19, sentence 121

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 121