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description: In their village it was customary to celebrate the feast of St. Andrew the First-Called (November 30). Who acts: couple. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 7

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In their village it was customary to celebrate the feast of St. Andrew the First-Called (November 30).

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**Who acts:** couple · **What happens:** be, celebrate, call · **To what, where:** customary, village, feast, Andrew · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (couple), 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:pg22373:12:7
# text = In their village it was customary to celebrate the feast of St. Andrew the First-Called (November 30).
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	customary	customary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:desc	_	_
13	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	_
20	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | couple | customary |  | sources's village |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **celebrate** | to-infinitive |  | the feast of Andrew  St. |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  | Andrew  St. *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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