Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 8

To-morrow we must not go hunting: we will try to catch her in the house and to capture her.”

Who acts: we · What happens: not go, hunt, try, catch, capture · To what, where: Bába, house

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 morrow	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 To	punct
3	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 go	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 go	advmod
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 go	xcomp
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 try	punct
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 try	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 try	aux
12	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 go	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 catch	mark
14	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 try	xcomp
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 catch	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 house	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 house	det
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 catch	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 capture	cc
20	to	to	PART	_	21 capture	mark
21	capture	capture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 try	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 capture	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not go	must	we			to morrow	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hunt	gerund	we not said here				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	try	future	we				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	catch not said to happen	to-infinitive	we not said here	Bába	the house		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	capture	to-infinitive	we not said here	Bába			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 8