Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 134

It is evident that the traditions from which the popular conception of the ghostly enemy has been evolved must have been of a complex and even conflicting character.

Who acts: many, traditions · What happens: be, evolve, conflict, conceive · To what, where: popular conception, character, ghostly enemy

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 (many, traditions), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 evident	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 evident	cop
3	evident	evident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 complex	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 traditions	det
6	traditions	tradition	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 complex	nsubj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 evolved	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 conception	det
10	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 conception	amod
11	conception	conception	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 evolved	nsubj:pass
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 enemy	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 enemy	det
14	ghostly	ghostly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 enemy	amod
15	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 conception	nmod
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 evolved	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 evolved	aux:pass
18	evolved	evolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 traditions	acl:relcl
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 complex	aux
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 complex	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 complex	cop
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 complex	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 complex	det
24	complex	complex	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 evident	advcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 conflicting	cc
26	even	even	ADV	_	27 conflicting	advmod
27	conflicting	conflict	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 complex	conj
28	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 conflicting	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 evident	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	many		evident property	tree rules
2	evolve	present · perfect · passive		the popular conception of the ghostly enemy	from the traditions	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: subject=Product from which=Patient
3	is	must · perfect	the traditions		of a complex	tree rules
4	conflict	gerund	the traditions not said here	character		tree rules
5	conceive			the ghostly enemy		nom conception «cognition 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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