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title: And so I will revert to those ideas about the dead, and about their… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: And so I will revert to those ideas about the dead, and about their abiding-place, which the modern Slavonians seem to have inherited from their heathen ancestors, and I will attempt to illustrate them by a few Russian ghost-stories. Who acts: I, modern Slavonians. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 105

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And so I will revert to those ideas about the dead, and about their abiding-place, which the modern Slavonians seem to have inherited from their heathen ancestors, and I will attempt to illustrate them by a few Russian ghost-stories.

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**Who acts:** I, modern Slavonians · **What happens:** revert, seem, inherit, attempt, illustrate · **To what, where:** abiding place, heathen ancestors, Slavonians

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., 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 (I, modern Slavonians), 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:pg22373:52:105
# text = And so I will revert to those ideas about the dead, and about their abiding-place, which the modern Slavonians seem to have inherited from their heathen ancestors, and I will attempt to illustrate them by a few Russian ghost-stories.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	revert	revert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	abiding	abiding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Slavonians	Slavonian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux	_	_
27	inherited	inherit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	xcomp	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	heathen	heathen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	attempt	attempt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	illustrate	illustrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
42	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
43	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
44	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **revert** | future | I |  |  |  |  | to that ideas about the dead *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to idea=Result |
| 2 | **seem** | present | the modern Slavonians | ideas's abiding place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **inherit** | to-infinitive · perfect | the modern Slavonians *not said here* |  |  | Slavonians's heathen ancestors |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from ancestor=Source |
| 4 | **attempt** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **illustrate** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | Slavonians *= slavonian* |  |  |  | by a few Russian ghost stories | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination |

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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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