Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 101
He was an effeminate kind of person and perhaps one who rather incited others to effort by his jibes than by his prowess.
Who acts: Vladímir · What happens: be, incite · To what, where: effeminate kind, others
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vladímir), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kind | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kind | det |
| 4 | effeminate | effeminate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kind | amod |
| 5 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 person | case |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kind | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 one | cc |
| 9 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 10 one | advmod |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 person | appos |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 incited | nsubj |
| 12 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 13 incited | advmod |
| 13 | incited | incite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 one | acl:relcl |
| 14 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 incited | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 effort | case |
| 16 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 incited | obl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 jibes | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 jibes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | jibes | jibe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 incited | obl |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 prowess | case |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 prowess | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 prowess | nmod:poss |
| 23 | prowess | prowess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 jibes | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Vladímir | a effeminate kind | of person | tree rules | |||
| 2 | incite | past | others | to effort; by Vladímir's jibes than Vladímir's prowess; who nsubj | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition other=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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