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description: [379] Some account of Russian funeral rites and beliefs, and of the dirges which are sung at buryings and memorials of the dead, will be found in the "Songs of the Russian People," pp. Who acts: Songs. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., p
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 132

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\[379\] Some account of Russian funeral rites and beliefs, and of the dirges which are sung at buryings and memorials of the dead, will be found in the "Songs of the Russian People," pp.

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**Who acts:** Songs · **What happens:** sing, find, account · **To what, where:** dirges, buryings, Russian funeral rites

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Songs), 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:pg22373:54:132
# text = [379] Some account of Russian funeral rites and beliefs, and of the dirges which are sung at buryings and memorials of the dead, will be found in the "Songs of the Russian People," pp.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	379	379	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	rites	rite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	beliefs	belief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dirges	dirge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	buryings	burying	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	memorials	memorial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Songs	Song	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	30	obl:agent	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	People	People	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
41	pp	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | present · passive |  | the dirges |  | buryings and memorials of the dead |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | future · passive | the Songs of the Russian People and pp |  |  |  |  | of the dirges | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **account** |  |  | Russian funeral rites and beliefs |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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