Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 47
_ This may be translated earls, but in the Russian social scale it only meant the bigger men, the seigneurs.
Who acts: scale · What happens: translate, mean · To what, where: This, bigger men
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 (scale), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 translated | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 translated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 translated | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 translated | aux:pass |
| 5 | translated | translate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | earls | earl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 translated | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 meant | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 meant | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 scale | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 scale | det |
| 11 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 scale | amod |
| 12 | social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 scale | amod |
| 13 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 meant | obl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 meant | nsubj |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 meant | advmod |
| 16 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 translated | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 men | det |
| 18 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 men | amod |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 meant | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 seigneurs | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 seigneurs | det |
| 22 | seigneurs | seigneur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 men | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 translated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | translate | may · passive | This | earls obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | past | scale | the bigger men and the seigneurs | in the Russian social scale | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot man=Theme in scale=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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