Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 137
They were looking for him in the midst of the _boyárs_, in the midst of the generals; and they went to them all, but they could not find him.
Who acts: fire · What happens: look, go, not find · To what, where: midst, generals, bridegroom
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 (fire), 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 | 3 looking | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looking | aux |
| 3 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looking | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 midst | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 midst | det |
| 8 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looking | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 boyárs | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boyárs | det |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 boyárs | punct |
| 12 | boyárs | boyár | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 midst | nmod |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 looking | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 midst | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 midst | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 midst | det |
| 17 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looking | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 generals | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 generals | det |
| 20 | generals | general | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 midst | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looking | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | obl |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 find | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 find | cc |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 find | nsubj |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 find | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 find | advmod |
| 33 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 went | conj |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 find | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · progressive | fire | the midst of the boyárs | for bridegroom; in the midst of the generals | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme in midst=Location | |||
| 2 | go | past | fire | generals = general | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | not find | could | fire | bridegroom | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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