Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 49

As in his Pagan myths, the Slav never advanced beyond inchoate conceptions of Nature, he neither philosophized like the Hindu, nor created types of pure grace like the Greek, nor beautiful fancies, like the Celt.

Who acts: Slav · What happens: not advance, philosophize, create, conceive, type · To what, where: types, Nature, pure grace

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, 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 (Slav), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	5 myths	case
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 myths	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 myths	nmod:poss
4	Pagan	pagan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 myths	amod
5	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 advanced	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 myths	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Slav	det
8	Slav	Slav	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 advanced	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 advanced	advmod
10	advanced	advance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	13 conceptions	case
12	inchoate	inchoate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 conceptions	amod
13	conceptions	conception	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 advanced	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Nature	case
15	Nature	Nature	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 conceptions	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 philosophized	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 philosophized	nsubj
18	neither	neither	ADV	_	19 philosophized	advmod
19	philosophized	philosophize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 advanced	conj
20	like	like	ADP	_	22 Hindu	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Hindu	det
22	Hindu	Hindu	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 philosophized	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 created	punct
24	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	25 created	cc
25	created	create	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 advanced	conj
26	types	type	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 created	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 grace	case
28	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 grace	amod
29	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 types	nmod
30	like	like	ADP	_	32 Greek	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Greek	det
32	Greek	Greek	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 grace	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fancies	punct
34	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	36 fancies	cc
35	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fancies	amod
36	fancies	fancy	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 created	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Celt	punct
38	like	like	ADP	_	40 Celt	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Celt	det
40	Celt	Celt	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 created	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 advanced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not advance	past	the Slav		as nature's Pagan myths; beyond inchoate conceptions of Nature	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	philosophize	past	Slav		like the Hindu; neither property	tree rules
3	create	past	the Slav not said here	types of pure grace like the Greek	like the Celt; beautiful fancies obl	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent type=Result
4	conceive			Nature		nom conception «cognition transitive»: of=patient
5	type			pure grace like the Greek		nom type «cognition transitive»: 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 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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 49

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 49