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title: The districts of the Russian Empire in which a belief in vampires mo… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The districts of the Russian Empire in which a belief in vampires mostly prevails are White Russia and the Ukraine. Who acts: belief, districts. 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 eve
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 91

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The districts of the Russian Empire in which a belief in vampires mostly prevails are White Russia and the Ukraine.

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**Who acts:** belief, districts · **What happens:** prevail, be · **To what, where:** districts, White Russia

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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, districts), 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:pg22373:54:91
# text = The districts of the Russian Empire in which a belief in vampires mostly prevails are White Russia and the Ukraine.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	districts	district	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	vampires	vampire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	prevails	prevail	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prevail** | present | a belief in vampires |  |  | the districts of the Russian Empire |  | mostly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the districts of the Russian Empire | White Russia and the Ukraine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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