Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 11
They sent for hunters in every part of the earth, and summoned them to assemble doctors.
Who acts: spirits · What happens: send, summon, assemble · To what, where: part, spirits, doctors
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirits), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 hunters | case |
| 4 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sent | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 part | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 part | det |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 earth | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 earth | det |
| 10 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 part | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 summoned | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 summoned | cc |
| 13 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sent | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 summoned | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 assemble | mark |
| 16 | assemble | assemble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 summoned | xcomp |
| 17 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 assemble | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | spirits = spirit | every part of the earth | for hunters | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in part=Destination | |||
| 2 | summon | past | spirits = spirit not said here | spirits = spirit | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | assemble | to-infinitive | spirits = spirit not said here | doctors | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent doctor=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/26/11/