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title: [92] When such tales as these came west in Christian times, their re… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: [92] When such tales as these came west in Christian times, their references to polygamy were constantly suppressed, and their distinctions between brothers and half-brothers disappeared. Who acts: such tales, Christian times, distinctions, brothers. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Coll
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 82

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\[92\] When such tales as these came west in Christian times, their references to polygamy were constantly suppressed, and their distinctions between brothers and half-brothers disappeared.

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**Who acts:** such tales, Christian times, distinctions, brothers · **What happens:** come, suppress, disappear, refer, distinguish · **To what, where:** 92, references

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (such tales, Christian times, distinctions, brothers), 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:pg22373:21:82
# text = [92] When such tales as these came west in Christian times, their references to polygamy were constantly suppressed, and their distinctions between brothers and half-brothers disappeared.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	92	92	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
5	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	nmod	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	west	west	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	references	reference	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	polygamy	polygamy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	constantly	constantly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	suppressed	suppress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	distinctions	distinction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
26	between	between	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
32	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | such tales as these | 92 |  |  | time | west *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **suppress** | past · passive | Christian times *not said here* | brothers's references to polygamy |  |  |  | constantly *property* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **disappear** | past | brothers's distinctions between brothers and half brothers |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **refer** |  | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | to polygamy | nom reference «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
| 5 | **distinguish** |  | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | between brothers | nom distinction «cognition transitive»: poss=agent between=obl |

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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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