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description: Kotlyarevsky, in his excellent work on their funeral customs, arrives at the conclusion that there never was any general rule on the subject, but that some Slavonians buried without burning, while others first burned their dead, and then inhumed their ashes. Who acts: Kotlyarevsky, Slavonians, other
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 5, sentence 69

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Kotlyarevsky, in his excellent work on their funeral customs, arrives at the conclusion that there never was any general rule on the subject, but that some Slavonians buried without burning, while others first burned their dead, and then inhumed their ashes.

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**Who acts:** Kotlyarevsky, Slavonians, others · **What happens:** arrive, not be, bury, burn, inhum, work · **To what, where:** conclusion, general rule, subject, dead, ashes, funeral customs

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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 (Kotlyarevsky, Slavonians, others), 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:pg22373:55:69
# text = Kotlyarevsky, in his excellent work on their funeral customs, arrives at the conclusion that there never was any general rule on the subject, but that some Slavonians buried without burning, while others first burned their dead, and then inhumed their ashes.
1	Kotlyarevsky	Kotlyarevsky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	arrives	arrive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	acl	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
21	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	Slavonians	Slavonian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
32	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
37	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	38	advmod	_	_
38	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	parataxis	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	44	advmod	_	_
44	inhumed	inhum	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
45	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | present | Kotlyarevsky |  |  | the conclusion |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past |  | any general rule |  | the subject |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bury** | past | some Slavonians |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **burn** | gerund | some Slavonians *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **burn** | past | others | Slavonians's dead |  |  |  | first *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dead=Theme |
| 6 | **inhum** | past | others *not said here* | Slavonians's ashes |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **work** |  | Kotlyarevsky |  |  | Slavonians's funeral customs |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent on=place |

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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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