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title: He is somewhat similar to Pan, but is also represented as having cop… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 41, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 27

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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.

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**Who acts:** Léshi, terms · **What happens:** be, represent, have, refer · **To what, where:** Pan, copper arms

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:41:27
# text = 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.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Pan	Pan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	also	also	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	refer	refer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	30	cc	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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 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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