Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 154
_" I have translated literally, but the words mean nothing more than "a man," "something human."
Who acts: words · What happens: translate, mean · To what, where: _, nothing
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 translated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 translated | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 translated | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 translated | aux |
| 5 | translated | translate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 5 translated | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mean | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 mean | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 words | det |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 mean | nsubj |
| 11 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 translated | advcl |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 mean | obj |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 nothing | amod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 man | case |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 more | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mean | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 translated | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 something | punct |
| 21 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 translated | obj |
| 22 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 something | amod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 something | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 something | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | translate in a quote | present · perfect · passive | _ | literally property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present | the words | nothing | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
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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