Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 71
The epithet ‘deathless’ does not mean indestructible, but that he can only be slain in an extraordinary manner and will not die in a natural way.
Who acts: epithet · What happens: not mean, slay, not die · To what, where: epithet, extraordinary manner · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (epithet), 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 epithet | det |
| 2 | epithet | epithet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 deathless | punct |
| 4 | deathless | deathless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 epithet | appos |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 deathless | punct |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mean | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 mean | advmod |
| 8 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | indestructible | indestructible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mean | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 slain | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 slain | cc |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 slain | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 slain | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 slain | aux |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 slain | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 slain | aux:pass |
| 17 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 mean | ccomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 manner | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 manner | det |
| 20 | extraordinary | extraordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 manner | amod |
| 21 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 slain | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 die | cc |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 die | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 die | advmod |
| 25 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 slain | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 way | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 way | det |
| 28 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 way | amod |
| 29 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 die | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mean | present · do-support | the epithet | indestructible property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | slay | can · passive | epithet | a extraordinary manner | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not die | future | in a natural way | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in way=Attribute |
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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