Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 90

In those which I am about to quote, the wizard or witch who is mentioned is a human being, but one who has made a compact with evil spirits, and has thereby become endowed with strange powers.

What happens: quote, mention, make, be · To what, where: wizard, compact, human

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	2 those	case
2	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	root	root
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 about	nsubj
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 about	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 about	cop
6	about	about	ADP	_	2 those	nmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 quote	mark
8	quote	quote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 about	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 those	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wizard	det
11	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 those	appos
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 witch	cc
13	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wizard	conj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 mentioned	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 mentioned	aux:pass
16	mentioned	mention	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 wizard	acl:relcl
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 endowed	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 endowed	det
19	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 endowed	nsubj:outer
20	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 endowed	aux:pass
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 endowed	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 endowed	cc
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 endowed	nsubj:pass
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 made	nsubj
25	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 made	aux
26	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 one	parataxis
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 compact	det
28	compact	compact	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 made	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 spirits	case
30	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 spirits	amod
31	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 compact	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 become	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 become	cc
34	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 become	aux
35	thereby	thereby	ADV	_	36 become	advmod
36	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 endowed	aux:pass
37	endowed	endow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 those	appos
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 powers	case
39	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 powers	amod
40	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 endowed	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 those	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	quote speech: other	to-infinitive			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mention speech: other	present · passive	the wizard or witch		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
3	make	present · perfect	a compact	with evil spirits	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compact=Product
4	is	present · passive	human	with strange powers; endow property	tree rules

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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