Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 114
But that same night hunters, passing by, hunting for hares, found the boy, took him home, and brought him up.
Who acts: that, same night hunters · What happens: hunter, pass by, hunt, find, take, bring up · To what, where: boy
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, same night hunters), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 hunters | cc |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 hunters | nsubj |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hunters | amod |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hunters | compound |
| 5 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 found | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 passing | punct |
| 7 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 hunters | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 passing | fixed |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hunting | punct |
| 10 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 passing | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 hares | case |
| 12 | hares | hare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hunting | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hunters | punct |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boy | det |
| 16 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | obj |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 18 took | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 brought | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 brought | cc |
| 23 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 brought | obj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 brought | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunter | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | pass by | gerund | same night hunters not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hunt | gerund | same night hunters not said here | for hares | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for hare=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | same night hunters | the boy | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Topic | ||||
| 5 | take | past | same night hunters not said here | boy | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 6 | bring up | past | same night hunters not said here | boy | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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