Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 195
Though born of human parents, all their qualities are different from those of men.
Who acts: qualities · What happens: bear, be · To what, where: those
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (qualities), 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 2 born | mark |
| 2 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 different | advcl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 parents | case |
| 4 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 parents | amod |
| 5 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 born | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 born | punct |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 qualities | det:predet |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 qualities | nmod:poss |
| 9 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 different | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 different | cop |
| 11 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 those | case |
| 13 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 different | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 men | case |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 those | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 different | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle | parents's qualities not said here | of human parents | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | present | parents's qualities | those | different property | tree rules |
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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