Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 88
The ship’s crew saw this marvel—an animal which was not an animal, a man that was not a man, with a bladder on his head and with fur all round him.
Who acts: crew, animal, man · What happens: see, not be · To what, where: marvel, animal, man
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crew, animal, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ship | det |
| 2 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crew | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 ship | case |
| 4 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 marvel | det |
| 7 | marvel | marvel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 animal | punct |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 animal | det |
| 10 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 marvel | appos |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 animal | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 animal | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 animal | advmod |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 animal | det |
| 15 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 animal | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 man | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 animal | conj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 man | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 man | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 man | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 man | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bladder | punct |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 bladder | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 bladder | det |
| 27 | bladder | bladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 head | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 head | nmod:poss |
| 30 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bladder | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 fur | cc |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 fur | case |
| 33 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 head | conj |
| 34 | all | all | ADV | _ | 36 him | advmod |
| 35 | round | round | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the ship's crew | this marvel | with a bladder on crew's head and fur; round man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer marvel=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not is a | past | a animal and a man | a animal | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is a | past | a man | a man | 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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