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description: The numerous traditions which have gathered around the original idea vary to some extent according to their locality, but they are never radically inconsistent. Who acts: numerous traditions, traditions. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories.,
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 93

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The numerous traditions which have gathered around the original idea vary to some extent according to their locality, but they are never radically inconsistent.

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**Who acts:** numerous traditions, traditions · **What happens:** gather, vary, accord, not be · **To what, where:** numerous traditions, original idea

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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 (numerous traditions, traditions), 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:pg22373:54:93
# text = The numerous traditions which have gathered around the original idea vary to some extent according to their locality, but they are never radically inconsistent.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	around	around	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	vary	vary	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	case	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	locality	locality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	radically	radically	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	inconsistent	inconsistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | present · perfect · passive |  | the numerous traditions |  | the original idea |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **vary** | infinitive | the numerous traditions |  |  |  |  | to some extent accord traditions's locality | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | traditions *= tradition* |  |  |  |  | inconsistent, radically *property* | 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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