Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 194
[215] The demonism of Ceylon "represents demons as having _human_ fathers and mothers, and as being born in the ordinary course of nature.
Who acts: demonism · What happens: represent, have, bear · To what, where: 215, ordinary course
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (demonism), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 215 | punct |
| 2 | 215 | 215 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 represents | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 215 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 demonism | det |
| 5 | demonism | demonism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 represents | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Ceylon | case |
| 7 | Ceylon | Ceylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 demonism | nmod |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ceylon | punct |
| 9 | represents | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 represents | obj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 having | mark |
| 12 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 represents | advcl |
| 13 | _ | _ | ADP | _ | 16 fathers | case |
| 14 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fathers | amod |
| 15 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fathers | compound |
| 16 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 having | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 mothers | cc |
| 18 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fathers | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 born | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 born | cc |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 born | mark |
| 22 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 born | aux:pass |
| 23 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 represents | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 course | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 course | det |
| 26 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 course | amod |
| 27 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 born | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 nature | case |
| 29 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 course | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 represents | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent in a quote | present | the demonism of Ceylon | 215 | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot demon=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | gerund | the demonism of Ceylon not said here | _ human _ fathers and mothers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bear in a quote | gerund · passive | the demonism of Ceylon not said here | the ordinary course of nature | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
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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