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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 100

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A great number of the Russian legends refer to the visits which Christ and his Apostles are supposed to pay to men's houses at various times, but especially during the period between Easter Sunday and Ascension Day.

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**Who acts:** great number · **What happens:** refer, suppose, pay · **To what, where:** Christ

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great number), 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:pg22373:56:100
# text = A great number of the Russian legends refer to the visits which Christ and his Apostles are supposed to pay to men's houses at various times, but especially during the period between Easter Sunday and Ascension Day.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	refer	refer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
13	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	Apostles	apostle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
31	during	during	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
34	between	between	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	Easter	Easter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	Ascension	Ascension	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | present | a great number of the Russian legends |  |  |  | during the period between Easter Sunday and Ascension Day | to the visits | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to visit=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **suppose** | present · passive |  | Christ and Christ's Apostles |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pay** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | time | to men's houses | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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