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description: On Sundays and holidays we accompany the villagers to their white-walled, green-domed church, and afterwards listen to the songs which the girls sing in the summer choral dances, or take part in the merriment of the social gatherings, which enliven the long nights of winter. Who acts: Sundays, girls
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 44

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On Sundays and holidays we accompany the villagers to their white-walled, green-domed church, and afterwards listen to the songs which the girls sing in the summer choral dances, or take part in the merriment of the social gatherings, which enliven the long nights of winter.

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**Who acts:** Sundays, girls, social gatherings · **What happens:** accompany, wall, dome, listen, sing, take · **To what, where:** villagers, walled green domed church, songs, choral dances, part, merriment

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, 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 (Sundays, girls, social gatherings), 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:pg22373:11:44
# text = On Sundays and holidays we accompany the villagers to their white-walled, green-domed church, and afterwards listen to the songs which the girls sing in the summer choral dances, or take part in the merriment of the social gatherings, which enliven the long nights of winter.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	holidays	holiday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	accompany	accompany	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	villagers	villager	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
11	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	walled	wall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	domed	dome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	choral	choral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	dances	dance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
38	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	merriment	merriment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	gatherings	gathering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj	_	_
48	enliven	enliven	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accompany** | present | Sundays and holidays | the villagers |  | villagers's walled green domed church |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent villager=Theme to church=Destination |
| 2 | **wall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dome** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **listen** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the songs; afterwards *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | the girls | the songs |  | the choral dances |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Theme |
| 6 | **take** | infinitive |  | part |  | the merriment of the social gatherings |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in merriment=Location |
| 7 | **enliven** | present | the social gatherings |  |  |  | night |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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