Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 21

An excellent illustration of this statement is offered by the contrast between the Slavonic group of supernatural beings of this class and their equivalents in lands tenanted by non-Slavonic members of the Indo-European family.

Who acts: contrast, class · What happens: offer, tenant, illustrate, be · To what, where: excellent illustration, lands, statement

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 (contrast, class), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 illustration	det
2	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 illustration	amod
3	illustration	illustration	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 offered	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 statement	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 statement	det
6	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 illustration	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 offered	aux:pass
8	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 contrast	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 contrast	det
11	contrast	contrast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 offered	obl
12	between	between	ADP	_	15 group	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 group	det
14	Slavonic	Slavonic	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 group	compound
15	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 contrast	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 beings	case
17	supernatural	supernatural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 beings	amod
18	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 group	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 class	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 class	det
21	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beings	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 equivalents	cc
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 equivalents	nmod:poss
24	equivalents	equivalent	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 contrast	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 lands	case
26	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 equivalents	nmod
27	tenanted	tenant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 lands	acl
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 members	case
29	non-Slavonic	non-slavonic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 members	amod
30	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 tenanted	obl:agent
31	of	of	ADP	_	36 family	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 family	det
33	Indo	Indo	X	_	35 European	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 Indo	punct
35	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 family	amod
36	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 members	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	offer	present · passive	the contrast between the Slavonic group of supernatural beings of this class and groups's equivalents in lands	a excellent illustration of this statement	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	tenant	participle		lands not said here	tree rules
3	illustrate			this statement	nom illustration «communication transitive»: of=patient
4	be		this class		nom being «state 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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