Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 55
Is not a man asleep as one dead?”
Who acts: man · What happens: not be
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11. 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.
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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 asleep | cop |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 asleep | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asleep | nsubj |
| 5 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 dead | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 dead | nummod |
| 8 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 asleep | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 asleep | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 asleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | a man | as one dead; asleep 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 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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