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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 6

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But whatever may be their origin, they all bear witness to the fact of their having been exposed to various influences, and many of them may fairly be considered as relics of hoar antiquity, memorials of that misty period when the pious Slavonian chronicler struck by the confusion of Christian with heathen ideas and ceremonies then prevalent, styled his countrymen a two-faithed people.

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**Who acts:** whatever, incidents, fact, pious Slavonian chronicler · **What happens:** be, bear, expose, consider, strike, style · **To what, where:** origin, witness, incidents, various influences, many, pious Slavonian chronicler

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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 (whatever, incidents, fact, pious Slavonian chronicler), 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:pg22373:56:6
# text = But whatever may be their origin, they all bear witness to the fact of their having been exposed to various influences, and many of them may fairly be considered as relics of hoar antiquity, memorials of that misty period when the pious Slavonian chronicler struck by the confusion of Christian with heathen ideas and ceremonies then prevalent, styled his countrymen a two-faithed people.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
10	bear	bear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
11	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	exposed	expose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	influences	influence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
25	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	_
28	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	relics	relic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	hoar	hoar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	antiquity	antiquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	memorials	memorial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	det	_	_
41	misty	misty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
43	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	62	advmod	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
45	pious	pious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
46	Slavonian	Slavonian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	chronicler	chronicler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	_
48	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	acl	_	_
49	by	by	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
54	with	with	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	heathen	heathen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obl	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	conj	_	_
59	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	60	advmod	_	_
60	prevalent	prevalent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
62	styled	style	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
63	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	64	nmod:poss	_	_
64	countrymen	countryman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	obj	_	_
65	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
66	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	69	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	66	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	faithed	faith	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	69	amod	_	_
69	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | may | whatever | incidents's origin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | present | incidents *= incident* | witness |  |  |  | to the fact | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=Patient |
| 3 | **expose** | gerund · perfect · passive | the fact *not said here* | incidents *= incident* | various influences |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to influence=Recipient |
| 4 | **consider** | may · passive |  | many of incidents |  |  |  | as relics of hoar antiquity and memorials of that misty period; fairly *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 5 | **strike** | participle |  | the pious Slavonian chronicler *not said here* |  |  |  | by the confusion | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by confusion=Location |
| 6 | **style** | past | the pious Slavonian chronicler | chronicler's countrymen |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent countryman=Theme people=Result |
| 7 | **faith** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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