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title: He looked for him everywhere, asked everybody, questioned them, but… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He looked for him everywhere, asked everybody, questioned them, but it was no good, and all trace had vanished. Who acts: sign, champion, trace. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 98

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He looked for him everywhere, asked everybody, questioned them, but it was no good, and all trace had vanished.

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**Who acts:** sign, champion, trace · **What happens:** look, ask, question, be, vanish · **To what, where:** everybody, SMITH

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sign, champion, trace), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:16:98
# text = He looked for him everywhere, asked everybody, questioned them, but it was no good, and all trace had vanished.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	questioned	question	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	trace	trace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | sign |  |  |  |  | for husband; everywhere *property* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | everybody |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everybody=Recipient |
| 3 | **question** *speech: other* | past |  | SMITH |  |  |  |  | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | past | champion |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **vanish** | past · perfect | all trace |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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