Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 49
When the Tsar saw a deer in the fields, he went up and he took his young men with him, and he hunted him and almost captured the deer; and the deer was very beautiful.
Who acts: Tsar, deer · What happens: see, go up, take, hunt, capture, be · To what, where: deer, fields, young men, bade
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar, deer), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 deer | det |
| 6 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 fields | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fields | det |
| 9 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 went | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 men | nmod:poss |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 men | amod |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 took | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hunted | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hunted | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 hunted | nsubj |
| 25 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | parataxis |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 hunted | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 captured | cc |
| 28 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 29 captured | advmod |
| 29 | captured | capture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 hunted | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 deer | det |
| 31 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 captured | obj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 beautiful | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 beautiful | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 deer | det |
| 35 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 beautiful | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 beautiful | cop |
| 37 | very | very | ADV | _ | 38 beautiful | advmod |
| 38 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 went | parataxis |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Tsar | a deer | the fields | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deer=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | go up | past | Tsar | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | take | past | Tsar | Tsar's young men | with bade | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination | |||
| 4 | hunt | past | Tsar | bade | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | capture | past | Tsar not said here | the deer | almost property | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme | |||
| 6 | is | past | the deer | beautiful property | tree rules |
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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