Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 16
He is endowed with supernatural powers, but he remains a man, for all that.
Who acts: hero · What happens: endow, remain · To what, where: hero, man
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hero), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 endowed | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 endowed | aux:pass |
| 3 | endowed | endow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 powers | case |
| 5 | supernatural | supernatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 powers | amod |
| 6 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 endowed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 remains | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 remains | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 remains | nsubj |
| 10 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 endowed | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 remains | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 all | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 all | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 remains | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 all | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 endowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | endow | present · passive | hero | with supernatural powers | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with power=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remain | present | hero | a man | for all | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Attribute |
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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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