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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 9

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They may, it is true, be nothing more than various developments of the same original type; they may be traceable to germs common to the prehistoric ancestors of the now widely separated Aryan peoples; their peculiarities may simply be due to the accidents to which travellers from distant lands are liable.

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**Who acts:** beings, peculiarities, accidents · **What happens:** be, separate, develop · **To what, where:** nothing, same original type

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (beings, peculiarities, accidents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:19:9
# text = They may, it is true, be nothing more than various developments of the same original type; they may be traceable to germs common to the prehistoric ancestors of the now widely separated Aryan peoples; their peculiarities may simply be due to the accidents to which travellers from distant lands are liable.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	conj	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	developments	development	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	traceable	traceable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
26	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	prehistoric	prehistoric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
33	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	_
34	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
36	Aryan	Aryan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	peculiarities	peculiarity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
41	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
42	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	cop	_	_
44	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	47	case	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	fixed	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	accidents	accident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nsubj	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	50	det	_	_
50	travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	_
51	from	from	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nmod	_	_
54	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	cop	_	_
55	liable	liable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | may | beings *= being* |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive | beings *= being* *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | may | beings *= being* |  |  |  |  | to germs; traceable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | beings *= being* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the prehistoric ancestors of the separated Aryan peoples | tree rules |
| 5 | **separate** | participle |  |  |  |  | now | widely *property* | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | may | beings's peculiarities |  |  |  |  | due the accidents; to which travellers from distant lands; simply *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | present | the accidents |  |  |  |  | liable *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **develop** |  |  | the same original type |  |  |  |  | nom development «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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