Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 71

By far the most important beings of the latter class are those malevolent enchantresses who form two closely related branches of the same family.

Who acts: important beings, malevolent enchantresses, latter class · What happens: be, form · To what, where: malevolent enchantresses, two related branches

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (important beings, malevolent enchantresses, latter 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 far	case
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 enchantresses	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beings	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 important	advmod
5	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beings	amod
6	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 enchantresses	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 class	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 class	det
9	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 class	amod
10	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beings	nmod
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 enchantresses	cop
12	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 enchantresses	det
13	malevolent	malevolent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 enchantresses	amod
14	enchantresses	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 form	nsubj
16	form	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 enchantresses	acl:relcl
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 branches	nummod
18	closely	closely	ADV	_	19 related	advmod
19	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 branches	amod
20	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 form	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 family	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 family	det
23	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 family	amod
24	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 branches	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 enchantresses	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	the important beings of the latter class	that malevolent enchantresses	tree rules
2	form	present	that malevolent enchantresses	two related branches of the same family	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location branch=Theme
3	be		the latter 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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