Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 14

For the sake of convenience, we may select from the great mass of the mythical skazkas those which are supposed most manifestly to typify the conflict of opposing elements--whether of Good and Evil, or of Light and Darkness, or of Heat and Cold, or of any other pair of antagonistic forces or phenomena.

Who acts: we, opposing elements · What happens: select, suppose, typify, oppose, conflict · To what, where: great mass, conflict

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, opposing elements), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	3 sake	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sake	det
3	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 select	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 convenience	case
5	convenience	convenience	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sake	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sake	punct
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 select	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 select	aux
9	select	select	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 mass	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mass	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mass	amod
13	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 select	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 skazkas	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 skazkas	det
16	mythical	mythical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 skazkas	amod
17	skazkas	skazka	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 mass	nmod
18	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 skazkas	nmod
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 supposed	nsubj:pass
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 supposed	aux:pass
21	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 those	acl:relcl
22	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	23 manifestly	advmod
23	manifestly	manifestly	ADV	_	25 typify	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 typify	mark
25	typify	typify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 supposed	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 conflict	det
27	conflict	conflict	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 typify	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 elements	case
29	opposing	oppose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 elements	amod
30	elements	element	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 conflict	nmod
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 Good	punct
32	whether	whether	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 Good	mark
33	of	of	ADP	_	32 whether	fixed
34	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 typify	parataxis
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 Evil	cc
36	Evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Good	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Light	punct
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 Light	cc
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 Light	case
40	Light	Light	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Good	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 Darkness	cc
42	Darkness	Darkness	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Light	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 Heat	punct
44	or	or	CCONJ	_	46 Heat	cc
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 Heat	case
46	Heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 Light	conj
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 Cold	cc
48	Cold	Cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 Light	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 pair	punct
50	or	or	CCONJ	_	54 pair	cc
51	of	of	ADP	_	54 pair	case
52	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	54 pair	det
53	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 pair	amod
54	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 Light	conj
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 forces	case
56	antagonistic	antagonistic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 forces	amod
57	forces	force	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 pair	nmod
58	or	or	CCONJ	_	59 phenomena	cc
59	phenomena	phenomena	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 forces	conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 select	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	select	may	we		the great mass of the mythical skazkas those	for the sake of convenience	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from mass=Source
2	suppose	present · passive					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
3	typify	to-infinitive		the conflict of opposing elements		manifestly property	tree rules
4	oppose	gerund					vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	conflict		opposing elements				nom conflict «act intransitive»: of=agent

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 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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