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title: But that same night hunters, passing by, hunting for hares, found th… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 114

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But that same night hunters, passing by, hunting for hares, found the boy, took him home, and brought him up.

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**Who acts:** that, same night hunters · **What happens:** hunter, pass by, hunt, find, take, bring up · **To what, where:** boy

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:8:114
# text = But that same night hunters, passing by, hunting for hares, found the boy, took him home, and brought him up.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	hares	hare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	home	home	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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