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title: _" I have translated literally, but the words mean nothing more than… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: _" I have translated literally, but the words mean nothing more than "a man," "something human." Who acts: words. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 154

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\_" I have translated literally, but the words mean nothing more than "a man," "something human."

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**Who acts:** words · **What happens:** translate, mean · **To what, where:** \_, nothing

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:33:154
# text = _" I have translated literally, but the words mean nothing more than "a man," "something human."
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	obj	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
22	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **translate** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | \_ |  |  |  | literally *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | the words | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |

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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.

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**Text:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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