Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 27
He is somewhat similar to Pan, but is also represented as having copper arms, and an iron body, terms which refer to colour rather than to material.
Who acts: Léshi, terms · What happens: be, represent, have, refer · To what, where: Pan, copper arms
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Léshi, terms), 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 | 4 similar | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 similar | cop |
| 3 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 4 similar | advmod |
| 4 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Pan | case |
| 6 | Pan | Pan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 similar | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 represented | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 represented | cc |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 represented | aux:pass |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 represented | advmod |
| 11 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 similar | conj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 having | mark |
| 13 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 represented | advcl |
| 14 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 arms | compound |
| 15 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 having | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 body | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 body | cc |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 body | det |
| 19 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 body | compound |
| 20 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 similar | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 terms | punct |
| 22 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 body | conj |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 refer | nsubj |
| 24 | refer | refer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 terms | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 colour | case |
| 26 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 refer | obl |
| 27 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 30 material | cc |
| 28 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 rather | fixed |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 material | case |
| 30 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 refer | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 similar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Léshi | Pan | a iron body and terms conj; similar, somewhat property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | represent | present · passive | Léshi not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING» | |||||
| 3 | have | gerund | Léshi not said here | copper arms | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | ||||
| 4 | refer | present | terms | to colour; material conj | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to colour=Co-Theme |
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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