Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 114
Some of the _bogatyrí_ are decidedly demi-gods; others more decisively human; but they all have some superhuman, it may be said inhuman, touch.
Who acts: others · What happens: be, have, say · To what, where: demi gods, superhuman · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (others), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 gods | det |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 bogatyrí | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bogatyrí | det |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 bogatyrí | punct |
| 5 | bogatyrí | bogatyrí | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Some | nmod |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 1 Some | punct |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 gods | cop |
| 8 | decidedly | decidedly | ADV | _ | 11 gods | advmod |
| 9 | demi | demi | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gods | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 demi | punct |
| 11 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 said | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 human | punct |
| 13 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 more | nsubj |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 human | advmod |
| 15 | decisively | decisively | ADV | _ | 16 human | advmod |
| 16 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gods | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 have | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 have | advmod |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 said | ccomp |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 superhuman | det |
| 23 | superhuman | superhuman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 said | nsubj |
| 26 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 said | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 said | aux:pass |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 29 | inhuman | inhuman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 said | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 touch | punct |
| 31 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 inhuman | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | some demi gods | decidedly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | decisively property | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | have | present | others = other | some superhuman | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent superhuman=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | may · passive | some demi gods | superhuman nsubj; inhuman 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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