Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 94

In a Servian variant of the story, it is distinctly stated that the protecting cow had been the girl's mother--manifestly in a previous state of existence, a purely Buddhistic idea.

Who acts: protecting cow, story · What happens: state, protect, be, vary · To what, where: Skazkas, Servian variant, mother

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (protecting cow, story), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 variant	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 variant	det
3	Servian	servian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 variant	amod
4	variant	variant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stated	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 story	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 variant	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 variant	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stated	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 stated	aux:pass
11	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	12 stated	advmod
12	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 mother	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cow	det
15	protecting	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 cow	amod
16	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mother	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 mother	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 mother	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 girl	det
20	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mother	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 girl	case
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stated	obl
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 state	punct
24	manifestly	manifestly	ADV	_	28 state	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 state	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 state	det
27	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 state	amod
28	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mother	appos
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 existence	case
30	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 state	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 idea	punct
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 idea	det
33	purely	purely	ADV	_	34 Buddhistic	advmod
34	Buddhistic	buddhistic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 idea	amod
35	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mother	parataxis
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 stated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	present · passive		Skazkas	a Servian variant of the story	distinctly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	protect	gerund					vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past · perfect	the protecting cow	the girl's mother			tree rules
4	vary		the story				nom variant «event 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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