Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 70

Most remarkable among its numerous forms are those American and Malayo-Polynesian versions of the "heaven-tree" story which Mr. Tylor has brought together in his "Early History of mankind."

Who acts: myth · What happens: be, bring together, form · To what, where: those, tree story, Early History

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 (myth), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 remarkable	amod
2	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	among	among	ADP	_	6 forms	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 forms	nmod:poss
5	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 forms	amod
6	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 remarkable	obl
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 those	cop
8	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 forms	nmod
9	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 those	amod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 versions	cc
11	Malayo	Malayo	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 versions	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Malayo	punct
13	Polynesian	polynesian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 versions	amod
14	versions	version	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 those	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	22 story	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 story	det
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 tree	punct
18	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tree	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 tree	punct
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 story	compound
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 tree	punct
22	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 versions	nmod
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 brought	nsubj:pass
24	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Tylor	nmod:desc
25	Tylor	Tylor	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 brought	nsubj:pass
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 brought	aux
27	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 story	acl:relcl
28	together	together	ADV	_	27 brought	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	33 History	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 History	nmod:poss
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 History	punct
32	Early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 History	amod
33	History	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 brought	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 mankind	case
35	mankind	mankind	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 History	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remarkable	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 remarkable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		those			tree rules
2	bring together	present · perfect · passive		the tree story	Tylor's Early History of mankind	together property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme
3	form		myth				nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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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