Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 113
This knight used to scent the animals which ran by, run after them and catch them, not minding whether it were a rabbit, or fox, or a bear.
Who acts: knight, animals, animal · What happens: use, run by, run, catch, not mind, be · To what, where: scent, meat, rabbit
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight, animals, animal), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 knight | det |
| 2 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 run | nsubj |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 knight | acl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 scent | mark |
| 5 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 used | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 animals | det |
| 7 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 scent | obj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 animals | acl:relcl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 ran | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 run | punct |
| 12 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 run | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 catch | cc |
| 16 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 run | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 catch | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 minding | punct |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 minding | advmod |
| 20 | minding | mind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 run | advcl |
| 21 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 25 rabbit | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 rabbit | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 rabbit | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 rabbit | det |
| 25 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 minding | ccomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fox | punct |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 fox | cc |
| 28 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rabbit | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 bear | punct |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 bear | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 bear | det |
| 32 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rabbit | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | this knight not said here | scent the animals | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | run by | past | the animals | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | infinitive | this knight | after meat | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | catch | infinitive | this knight not said here | meat | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not mind | gerund | this knight not said here | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | animal | a rabbit or fox or a bear | fox conj; a bear conj | 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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