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title: [215] The demonism of Ceylon "represents demons as having _human_ fa… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: [215] The demonism of Ceylon "represents demons as having _human_ fathers and mothers, and as being born in the ordinary course of nature. Who acts: demonism. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, with its dependency tree 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 194

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\[215\] The demonism of Ceylon "represents demons as having \_human\_ fathers and mothers, and as being born in the ordinary course of nature.

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**Who acts:** demonism · **What happens:** represent, have, bear · **To what, where:** 215, ordinary course

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (demonism), 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:pg22373:34:194
# text = [215] The demonism of Ceylon "represents demons as having _human_ fathers and mothers, and as being born in the ordinary course of nature.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	215	215	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	demonism	demonism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Ceylon	Ceylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	represents	represent	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	demons	demon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
13	_	_	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **represent** *in a quote* | present | the demonism of Ceylon | 215 |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot demon=Theme |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | gerund | the demonism of Ceylon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | \_ human \_ fathers and mothers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bear** *in a quote* | gerund · passive | the demonism of Ceylon *not said here* |  |  | the ordinary course of nature |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |

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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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