Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 27
He is intermediate between the ‘_elder bogatyri_,’ the earth-born Tirans, and the human champions of the legendary Court of Vladímir.
Who acts: _ · What happens: be, bear
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_), 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 | 3 intermediate | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 intermediate | cop |
| 3 | intermediate | intermediate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 9 bogatyri | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bogatyri | det |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 bogatyri | punct |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 bogatyri | punct |
| 8 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bogatyri | compound |
| 9 | bogatyri | bogatyri | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 intermediate | obl |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 intermediate | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Tirans | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | ADP | _ | 17 Tirans | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Tirans | det |
| 14 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 born | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 earth | punct |
| 16 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 Tirans | amod |
| 17 | Tirans | Tiran | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 intermediate | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 champions | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 champions | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 champions | det |
| 21 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 champions | amod |
| 22 | champions | champion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Tirans | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Court | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Court | det |
| 25 | legendary | legendary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Court | amod |
| 26 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 champions | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Vladímir | case |
| 28 | Vladímir | Vladímir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Court | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 intermediate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | _ | between the elder bogatyri; ' the born Tirans; intermediate property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear | participle | earth compound | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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