Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 114

In the original form of the tale the supernatural agent was probably a demigod, whom a vague Christian influence has in one instance degraded into the Devil, in another, canonized as St. Nicholas.

Who acts: supernatural agent, vague Christian influence · What happens: be, have, degrade, canonize, form · To what, where: demigod, original form, one instance, tale

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (supernatural agent, vague Christian influence), 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 form	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 form	det
3	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 form	amod
4	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 demigod	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 tale	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tale	det
7	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 form	nmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 agent	det
9	supernatural	supernatural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 agent	amod
10	agent	agent	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 demigod	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 demigod	cop
12	probably	probably	ADV	_	14 demigod	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 demigod	det
14	demigod	demigod	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 has	punct
16	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 has	obj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 influence	det
18	vague	vague	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 influence	amod
19	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 influence	amod
20	influence	influence	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 has	nsubj
21	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 demigod	parataxis
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 instance	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 instance	nummod
24	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 has	obl
25	degraded	degrade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 instance	acl
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 Devil	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Devil	det
28	Devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 degraded	obl:agent
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 another	punct
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 another	case
31	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	21 has	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 canonized	punct
33	canonized	canonize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 another	acl
34	as	as	ADP	_	36 Nicholas	case
35	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Nicholas	nmod:desc
36	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 canonized	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 demigod	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the supernatural agent	a demigod	the original form of the tale	probably property	tree rules
2	have	present	a vague Christian influence	a demigod	one instance		tree rules
3	degrade	participle		one instance not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	canonize	participle				as Nicholas St.	tree rules
5	form			the tale			nom form «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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