Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 4

The two beliefs run side by side with each other, sometimes clashing and producing strange results--all the more strange when they show signs of an attempt having been made to reconcile them with Christian ideas.

Who acts: two beliefs, results, attempt · What happens: run, clash, produce, show, make, reconcile · To what, where: side, strange results, signs, attempt

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two beliefs, results, attempt), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 beliefs	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 beliefs	nummod
3	beliefs	belief	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 run	nsubj
4	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	obl
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 side	case
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 each	case
9	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	4 run	obl
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 each	fixed
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 clashing	punct
12	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 clashing	advmod
13	clashing	clash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 run	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 producing	cc
15	producing	produce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 clashing	conj
16	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 results	amod
17	results	result	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 producing	obj
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 strange	punct
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 strange	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 strange	det
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 strange	advmod
22	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 run	parataxis
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 show	advmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 show	nsubj
25	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 strange	advcl
26	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 show	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 attempt	case
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 attempt	det
29	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 signs	nmod
30	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 made	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 made	aux:pass
32	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 attempt	acl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 reconcile	mark
34	reconcile	reconcile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 made	xcomp
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 reconcile	obj
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 ideas	case
37	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 ideas	amod
38	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 reconcile	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	run	present	the two beliefs	side	by side; with each	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory
2	clash	gerund	the two beliefs not said here		sometimes property	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	produce	gerund	the two beliefs not said here	strange results		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=Result
4	show	present	results = result	signs of a attempt		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sign=Recipient
5	make	gerund · perfect · passive		a attempt not said here		tree rules
6	reconcile	to-infinitive	a attempt not said here	signs = sign	with Christian ideas	tree rules
7	sign			a attempt		nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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