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title: But it is not certain that burial by cremation was universally pract… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: But it is not certain that burial by cremation was universally practised by the heathen Slavonians. Who acts: fuer, heathen, cremation. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 5, 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 5, sentence 68

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But it is not certain that burial by cremation was universally practised by the heathen Slavonians.

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**Who acts:** fuer, heathen, cremation · **What happens:** not be, practise, bury · **To what, where:** burial

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fuer, heathen, cremation), 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:pg22373:55:68
# text = But it is not certain that burial by cremation was universally practised by the heathen Slavonians.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	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	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	burial	burial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	cremation	cremation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	universally	universally	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	practised	practise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	heathen	heathen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	Slavonians	Slavonian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	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** | present | fuer |  |  |  |  | certain *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **practise** | past · passive | the heathen | burial by cremation |  |  |  | universally *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bury** |  | cremation |  |  |  |  |  | nom burial «event transitive»: by=agent |

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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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