Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 113
His head is as big as a beer cauldron, and his shoulders a _sazhén_ broad.
Who acts: head, shoulders · What happens: be, sazhén
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, shoulders), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 head | nmod:poss |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 big | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 big | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 big | advmod |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 cauldron | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cauldron | det |
| 8 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cauldron | compound |
| 9 | cauldron | cauldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 big | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sazhén | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sazhén | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 13 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sazhén | nsubj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sazhén | det |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 sazhén | punct |
| 16 | sazhén | sazhén | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 big | conj |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 sazhén | punct |
| 18 | broad | broad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sazhén | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 big | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | man's head | as a beer cauldron; big property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sazhén | man's shoulders | broad conj | 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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