Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 24

If the powers of darkness in the "mythical" skazkas are divided into two groups--the one male, the other female--there stand out as the most prominent figures in the former set, the Snake (or some other illustration of "Zoological Mythology"), Koshchei the Deathless, and the Morskoi Tsar or King of the Waters.

What happens: divide, stand out, illustrate · To what, where: powers, two groups, Morskoi Tsar, Zoological Mythology

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: 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	13 divided	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 powers	det
3	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 divided	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 darkness	case
5	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 powers	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	11 skazkas	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 skazkas	det
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 mythical	punct
9	mythical	mythical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 skazkas	amod
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 mythical	punct
11	skazkas	skazka	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 darkness	nmod
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 divided	aux:pass
13	divided	divide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 groups	case
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 groups	nummod
16	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 divided	obl
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 male	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 male	det
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 male	nummod
20	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 groups	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 female	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 female	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 female	amod
24	female	female	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 male	appos
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 stand	punct
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 stand	expl
27	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 divided	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 stand	compound:prt
29	as	as	ADP	_	33 figures	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 figures	det
31	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	32 prominent	advmod
32	prominent	prominent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 figures	amod
33	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 stand	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 set	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 set	det
36	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 set	amod
37	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 figures	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Snake	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Snake	det
40	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 set	appos
41	(	(	PUNCT	_	45 illustration	punct
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 illustration	cc
43	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	45 illustration	det
44	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 illustration	amod
45	illustration	illustration	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 Snake	appos
46	of	of	ADP	_	49 Mythology	case
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 Mythology	punct
48	Zoological	Zoological	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Mythology	compound
49	Mythology	mythology	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 illustration	nmod
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 Mythology	punct
51	)	)	PUNCT	_	45 illustration	punct
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 Koshchei	punct
53	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Snake	conj
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 Deathless	det
55	Deathless	Deathless	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 Koshchei	appos
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 Tsar	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 Tsar	cc
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 Tsar	det
59	Morskoi	Morskoi	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 Tsar	compound
60	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 stand	obl
61	or	or	CCONJ	_	62 King	cc
62	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 Tsar	conj
63	of	of	ADP	_	65 Waters	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 Waters	det
65	Waters	Water	PROPN	Number=Plur	62 King	nmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 divided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	divide	present · passive	the powers of darkness in the mythical skazkas	two groups		vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	stand out	present	the Morskoi Tsar or King of the Waters	there	as the prominent figures in the former set	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	illustrate		Zoological Mythology			nom illustration «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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