Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 74
The brothers used to go hunting hares, and one day they went off and left their sister alone at home.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: use, go, hunt, go off, leave · To what, where: hunting hares, sister, home
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brothers | det |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 used | nsubj |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 used | xcomp |
| 6 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 hares | amod |
| 7 | hares | hare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 go | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 day | nummod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 used | parataxis |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 went | compound:prt |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 left | cc |
| 16 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sister | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 left | iobj |
| 19 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 16 left | advmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 home | case |
| 21 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 left | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | the brothers | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | the brothers not said here | hunting hares | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hare=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hunt | gerund | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | go off | past | brothers = brother | day | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | leave | past | brothers = brother not said here | brothers's sister | home | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sister=Theme at home=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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