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description: This belief is not peculiar to the Slavonians but it is one of the characteristic features of their spiritual creed. Who acts: belief. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 72

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This belief is not peculiar to the Slavonians but it is one of the characteristic features of their spiritual creed.

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**Who acts:** belief · **What happens:** not be, be, feature · **To what, where:** peculiar, one, spiritual creed

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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 (belief), 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:pg22373:54:72
# text = This belief is not peculiar to the Slavonians but it is one of the characteristic features of their spiritual creed.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Slavonians	Slavonian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	characteristic	characteristic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	spiritual	spiritual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	creed	creed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | this belief | peculiar |  |  |  | to the Slavonians | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | belief | one |  |  |  | of the characteristic features of features's spiritual creed | tree rules |
| 3 | **feature** |  |  | features's spiritual creed |  |  |  |  | nom feature «cognition 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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