Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 69

For they display in their dealings with their human antagonists a deficiency of intellectual power which almost amounts to imbecility.

Who acts: spirits, intellectual power · What happens: display, amount, deal · To what, where: deficiency, dealings

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirits, intellectual power), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	3 display	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 display	nsubj
3	display	display	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 dealings	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dealings	nmod:poss
6	dealings	dealing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 display	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 antagonists	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 antagonists	nmod:poss
9	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 antagonists	amod
10	antagonists	antagonist	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dealings	nmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 deficiency	det
12	deficiency	deficiency	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 display	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 power	case
14	intellectual	intellectual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 power	amod
15	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 deficiency	nmod
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 amounts	nsubj
17	almost	almost	ADV	_	18 amounts	advmod
18	amounts	amount	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 power	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 imbecility	case
20	imbecility	imbecility	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 amounts	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 display	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	display	present	spirits = spirit	a deficiency of intellectual power and amounts	spirits's dealings with spirits's human antagonists		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deficiency=Theme
2	amount		intellectual power and amounts			to imbecility; almost property	tree rules
3	deal		spirits = spirit			with spirits's human antagonists	nom dealing «act intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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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