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description: Most remarkable among its numerous forms are those American and Malayo-Polynesian versions of the "heaven-tree" story which Mr. Tylor has brought together in his "Early History of mankind." Who acts: myth. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 70

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Most remarkable among its numerous forms are those American and Malayo-Polynesian versions of the "heaven-tree" story which Mr. Tylor has brought together in his "Early History of mankind."

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**Who acts:** myth · **What happens:** be, bring together, form · **To what, where:** those, tree story, Early History

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., 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 (myth), 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:pg22373:51:70
# text = Most remarkable among its numerous forms are those American and Malayo-Polynesian versions of the "heaven-tree" story which Mr. Tylor has brought together in his "Early History of mankind."
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	among	among	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	nmod	_	_
9	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	Malayo	Malayo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Polynesian	polynesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:desc	_	_
25	Tylor	Tylor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	together	together	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	History	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	mankind	mankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | those |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring together** | present · perfect · passive |  | the tree story |  | Tylor's Early History of mankind |  | together *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **form** |  | myth |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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