Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 127
So for a long while they lived in the wood and used to catch rabbits, foxes and bears for their food.
Who acts: cows · What happens: live, use, catch · To what, where: wood, rabbits
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 (cows), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 long | advmod |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 long | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 long | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 lived | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 wood | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 used | cc |
| 12 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lived | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 catch | mark |
| 14 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 used | xcomp |
| 15 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 catch | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 foxes | punct |
| 17 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rabbits | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bears | cc |
| 19 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rabbits | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 food | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 food | nmod:poss |
| 22 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 catch | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | cows = cow | the wood | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location | ||||
| 2 | use | past | cows = cow not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | catch | to-infinitive | cows = cow not said here | rabbits and foxes and bears | for cows's food | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme for food=Beneficiary |
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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