Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 71
Both figures appear as ghostly spirits, who persecute man, but yet can be very efficaciously and roughly handled.
Who acts: figures, ghostly spirits · What happens: appear, persecute, handle · To what, where: man
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 (figures, ghostly spirits), 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 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 figures | det |
| 2 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 appear | nsubj |
| 3 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 spirits | case |
| 5 | ghostly | ghostly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spirits | amod |
| 6 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 appear | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 persecute | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 persecute | nsubj |
| 9 | persecute | persecute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 spirits | acl:relcl |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 persecute | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 handled | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 handled | cc |
| 13 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 20 handled | advmod |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 handled | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 handled | aux:pass |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 efficaciously | advmod |
| 17 | efficaciously | efficaciously | ADV | _ | 20 handled | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 handled | cc |
| 19 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 20 handled | advmod |
| 20 | handled | handle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 appear | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | both figures | as ghostly spirits | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | persecute | present | ghostly spirits | man | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | ||||
| 3 | handle | can · passive | yet | efficaciously, roughly property | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP» |
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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