Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 33

His flesh was made of earth, his bones of stone, his veins of roots, his blood of water, his hair of grass, his thought of the wind, his spirit of the cloud."

Who acts: man · What happens: make, think · To what, where: flesh, wind

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (man), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 flesh	nmod:poss
2	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 earth	case
6	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bones	punct
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bones	nmod:poss
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 stone	case
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bones	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 veins	punct
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 veins	nmod:poss
14	veins	vein	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bones	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 roots	case
16	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 veins	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 blood	punct
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 blood	nmod:poss
19	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	parataxis
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 water	case
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 blood	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hair	punct
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hair	nmod:poss
24	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 blood	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 grass	case
26	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hair	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 thought	punct
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 thought	nmod:poss
29	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 blood	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 wind	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wind	det
32	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 thought	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 spirit	punct
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 spirit	nmod:poss
35	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wind	appos
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 cloud	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 cloud	det
38	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 spirit	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		man's flesh				of earth; man's bones of stone and man's veins of roots obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	think		man	the wind					nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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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