Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 147
On every holy day he used to go hunting with his gun and his dog in the dreamy forest.
Who acts: Father · What happens: use, go, hunt · To what, where: dreamy forest
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 (Father), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 day | det |
| 3 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 used | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 used | nsubj |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 used | xcomp |
| 9 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 go | xcomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 gun | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 gun | nmod:poss |
| 12 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hunting | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dog | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 dog | nmod:poss |
| 15 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gun | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 forest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 forest | det |
| 18 | dreamy | dreamy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 forest | amod |
| 19 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hunting | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | Father | day | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | Father not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hunt | gerund | Father not said here | the dreamy forest | with Father's gun and Father's dog | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location |
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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