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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 150

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While alluding to this subject, by the way, it may be as well to remark that no great reliance can be placed upon the evidence contained in the folk-tales of any land, with respect to the relations between its clergy and their flocks.

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**Who acts:** subject, land · **What happens:** allude, be, remark, place, contain, tell · **To what, where:** great reliance, evidence, folk tales · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (subject, land), 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:pg22373:13:150
# text = While alluding to this subject, by the way, it may be as well to remark that no great reliance can be placed upon the evidence contained in the folk-tales of any land, with respect to the relations between its clergy and their flocks.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	alluding	allude	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	remark	remark	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	reliance	reliance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	contained	contain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
36	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
43	between	between	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	clergy	clergy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allude** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to this subject; by the way | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | may | subject |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **remark** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **place** | can · passive |  | no great reliance |  | the evidence |  | with respect to the relations between reliance's clergy and relations's flocks | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon evidence=Destination |
| 5 | **contain** | participle |  | the evidence *not said here* |  | the folk tales of any land |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in tale=Location |
| 6 | **tell** |  | any land |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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