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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 137

In the Russian tales the "death" of the Evil Being with whom the hero contends--the substance, namely, the destruction of which involves his death--is usually the last of a sequence of objects either identical with, or closely resembling, those mentioned in the following story of--

Who acts: hero, destruction, Evil · What happens: be, contend, involve, resemble, mention, follow · To what, where: death, last, Russian tales, those, following story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hero, destruction, Evil), 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

casedetamodobldetpunctnmodpunctcasedetnmodcopcasenmoddetnsubjacl:relclpunctdetappospunctamodpunctdetapposcasensubjacl:relclnmod:possobjpunctcopadvmoddetcasedetnmodcasenmodcc:preconjamodmarkpunctccadvmodadvclpunctnsubj:passconjcasedetamodoblcasepunctrootInADPtheDETRussianADJtalesNOUNtheDET"PUNCTdeathNOUN"PUNCTofADPtheDETEvilPROPNBeingAUXwithADPwhomPRONtheDETheroNOUNcontendsVERB--PUNCTtheDETsubstanceNOUN,PUNCTnamelyADJ,PUNCTtheDETdestructionNOUNofADPwhichPRONinvolvesVERBhisPRONdeathNOUN--PUNCTisAUXusuallyADVtheDETlastNOUNofADPaDETsequenceNOUNofADPobjectsNOUNeitherCCONJidenticalADJwithSCONJ,PUNCTorCCONJcloselyADVresemblingVERB,PUNCTthosePRONmentionedVERBinADPtheDETfollowingVERBstoryNOUNofADP--PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IninADP_4 talescase
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 talesdet
3RussianRussianADJDegree=Pos4 talesamod
4talestaleNOUNNumber=Plur35 lastobl
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 deathdet
6""PUNCT_7 deathpunct
7deathdeathNOUNNumber=Sing4 talesnmod
8""PUNCT_4 talespunct
9ofofADP_11 Evilcase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 Evildet
11EvilEvilPROPNNumber=Sing4 talesnmod
12BeingbeAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part14 whomcop
13withwithADP_14 whomcase
14whomwhomPRONPronType=Rel11 Evilnmod
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 herodet
16heroheroNOUNNumber=Sing17 contendsnsubj
17contendscontendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 whomacl:relcl
18----PUNCT_20 substancepunct
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 substancedet
20substancesubstanceNOUNNumber=Sing11 Evilappos
21,,PUNCT_22 namelypunct
22namelynamelyADJDegree=Pos20 substanceamod
23,,PUNCT_25 destructionpunct
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 destructiondet
25destructiondestructionNOUNNumber=Sing11 Evilappos
26ofofADP_27 whichcase
27whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel28 involvesnsubj
28involvesinvolveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin25 destructionacl:relcl
29hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 deathnmod:poss
30deathdeathNOUNNumber=Sing28 involvesobj
31----PUNCT_4 talespunct
32isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin35 lastcop
33usuallyusuallyADV_35 lastadvmod
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 lastdet
35lastlastNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
36ofofADP_38 sequencecase
37aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art38 sequencedet
38sequencesequenceNOUNNumber=Sing35 lastnmod
39ofofADP_40 objectscase
40objectsobjectNOUNNumber=Plur38 sequencenmod
41eithereitherCCONJ_42 identicalcc:preconj
42identicalidenticalADJDegree=Pos40 objectsamod
43withwithSCONJ_47 resemblingmark
44,,PUNCT_47 resemblingpunct
45ororCCONJ_47 resemblingcc
46closelycloselyADV_47 resemblingadvmod
47resemblingresembleVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part42 identicaladvcl
48,,PUNCT_50 mentionedpunct
49thosethatPRONNumber=Plur PronType=Dem50 mentionednsubj:pass
50mentionedmentionVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass35 lastconj
51ininADP_54 storycase
52thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art54 storydet
53followingfollowVERBVerbForm=Ger54 storyamod
54storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing50 mentionedobl
55ofofADP_54 storycase
56----PUNCT_35 lastpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1isgerundwith the Russian tales the death of the Eviltree rules
2contendpresentthe herovn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3involvepresentthe destructionhero's deathvn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme
4is apresentthe lastthe Russian tales the death of the Evilof a sequence of objects; usually propertytree rules
5resemblegerundclosely propertytree rules
6mention speech: otherparticiple · passivethosethe following storyvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
7followgerundvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8tellthe Evilnom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent
9dieheronom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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