two sentences confusing, help!

applebee001

GRE NO 2-1:

Cultural continuities with Africa were not dependent on importation and perpetuation of specific folktales in their pristine form. It is in the place that tales occupied in the lives of the slaves and in the meaning slaves derived from them that the clearest resemblances to African tradition can be found.

Is there some NN explain these two sentence for me? Thank you so much.

wangyu73cn

望文生义：

Cultural continuities with Africa were not dependent on importation and perpetuation of specific folktales in their pristine form.
非洲文化的传承，并不依赖于，某些原始形式的特定民间故事的引进和流传。

It is in the place that tales occupied in the lives of the slaves and in the meaning slaves derived from them that the clearest resemblances to African tradition can be found.
而在于那些故事在奴隶生活中所占据的地位，在于奴隶们由这些故事所得来的意义内涵，这种内涵是，具有与非洲传统的相似性。

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applebee001

前两天外出了，无法上网。谢谢答复。你讲的含义我明白了，能否说说第二句的句型，主谓宾。谢谢。

zhidong_w

个人见解，不知对否

从句中主要是tales can be found.

"occupied in the lives of the slaves and in the meaning slaves derived from them that the clearest resemblances to African tradition"全部修饰tales

applebee001

谢谢。那么主句是 it is ... that... 的强调句型了。对吗？