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title: The sacred nature of such an obligation may account for the singular… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The sacred nature of such an obligation may account for the singular reticence so often maintained, under similar circumstances, in stories of this class. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, with its dependency tree and t
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 8

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The sacred nature of such an obligation may account for the singular reticence so often maintained, under similar circumstances, in stories of this class.

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**What happens:** maintain · **To what, where:** sacred nature, similar circumstances

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg22373:25:8
# text = The sacred nature of such an obligation may account for the singular reticence so often maintained, under similar circumstances, in stories of this class.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	9	det:predet	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	obligation	obligation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	singular	singular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	reticence	reticence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	maintained	maintain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **maintain** | participle · passive |  | the sacred nature of such account for the singular reticence |  | similar circumstances |  | often *property* | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme |

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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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