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description: As besides the songs or _pyesni_ there are current among the people a number of _stikhi_ or poems on sacred subjects, so together with the _skazki_ there have been retained in the popular memory a multitude of _legendui_, or legends relating to persons or incidents mentioned in the Bible or in eccle
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 4

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As besides the songs or \_pyesni\_ there are current among the people a number of \_stikhi\_ or poems on sacred subjects, so together with the \_skazki\_ there have been retained in the popular memory a multitude of \_legendui\_, or legends relating to persons or incidents mentioned in the Bible or in ecclesiastical history.

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**Who acts:** legends · **What happens:** beside, be, retain, relate, mention · **To what, where:** songs, popular memory, persons, Bible

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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 (legends), 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:pg22373:56:4
# text = As besides the songs or _pyesni_ there are current among the people a number of _stikhi_ or poems on sacred subjects, so together with the _skazki_ there have been retained in the popular memory a multitude of _legendui_, or legends relating to persons or incidents mentioned in the Bible or in ecclesiastical history.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	besides	beside	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	pyesni	pyesni	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	current	current	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	among	among	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	stikhi	stikhi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	together	together	ADV	RB	_	10	parataxis	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	skazki	skazki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	37	punct	_	_
34	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	37	expl	_	_
35	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	retained	retain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	legendui	legendui	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	_
51	relating	relate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	50	acl	_	_
52	to	to	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl	_	_
54	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	conj	_	_
56	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	53	acl	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	_
60	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
61	in	in	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	ecclesiastical	ecclesiastical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beside** | present |  | the songs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | present |  |  |  | there |  | current *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **retain** | present · perfect · passive |  |  |  | the popular memory; there |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **relate** | gerund | legends *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to persons or incidents | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to person=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **mention** *speech: other* | participle |  | persons or incidents *not said here* |  | the Bible or ecclesiastical history |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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