Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 9

They may, it is true, be nothing more than various developments of the same original type; they may be traceable to germs common to the prehistoric ancestors of the now widely separated Aryan peoples; their peculiarities may simply be due to the accidents to which travellers from distant lands are liable.

Who acts: beings, peculiarities, accidents · What happens: be, separate, develop · To what, where: nothing, same original type

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 (beings, peculiarities, accidents), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 true	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 true	aux
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 true	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 true	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 true	cop
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nothing	punct
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 nothing	cop
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 true	conj
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 nothing	amod
11	than	than	ADP	_	13 developments	case
12	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 developments	amod
13	developments	development	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 more	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 type	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 type	det
16	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 type	amod
17	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 type	amod
18	type	type	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 developments	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 traceable	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 traceable	nsubj
21	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 traceable	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 traceable	cop
23	traceable	traceable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 true	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 germs	case
25	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 traceable	obl
26	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 traceable	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 ancestors	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ancestors	det
29	prehistoric	prehistoric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 ancestors	amod
30	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 common	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	37 peoples	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 peoples	det
33	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 separated	advmod
34	widely	widely	ADV	_	35 separated	advmod
35	separated	separate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 peoples	amod
36	Aryan	Aryan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 peoples	amod
37	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 ancestors	nmod
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 accidents	punct
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 peculiarities	nmod:poss
40	peculiarities	peculiarity	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 accidents	nsubj
41	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 accidents	aux
42	simply	simply	ADV	_	47 accidents	advmod
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 accidents	cop
44	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	47 accidents	case
45	to	to	ADP	_	44 due	fixed
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 accidents	det
47	accidents	accident	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 liable	nsubj
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 travellers	case
49	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	50 travellers	det
50	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 accidents	nmod
51	from	from	ADP	_	53 lands	case
52	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 lands	amod
53	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 travellers	nmod
54	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 liable	cop
55	liable	liable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 true	conj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	may	beings = being			true property	tree rules
2	is a	infinitive	beings = being not said here	nothing			tree rules
3	is	may	beings = being			to germs; traceable property	tree rules
4	be		beings = being not said here			to the prehistoric ancestors of the separated Aryan peoples	tree rules
5	separate	participle			now	widely property	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	is	may	beings's peculiarities			due the accidents; to which travellers from distant lands; simply property	tree rules
7	is	present	the accidents			liable property	tree rules
8	develop			the same original type			nom development «act 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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