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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 46

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His name is still preserved by the western and southern Slavonians in many local phrases, especially in imprecations; but, with the introduction of Christianity into Slavonic lands, all this worship of his divinity came to an end.

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**Who acts:** western Slavonians, introduction, Perun, divinity · **What happens:** preserve, come, name, introduce, worship · **To what, where:** name, many local phrases, end, Christianity, Slavonic lands

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (western Slavonians, introduction, Perun, divinity), 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:pg22373:57:46
# text = His name is still preserved by the western and southern Slavonians in many local phrases, especially in imprecations; but, with the introduction of Christianity into Slavonic lands, all this worship of his divinity came to an end.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	Slavonians	Slavonian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	phrases	phrase	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	imprecations	imprecation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	introduction	introduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Slavonic	Slavonic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	34	det:predet	_	_
33	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	worship	worship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	divinity	divinity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **preserve** | present · passive | the western Slavonians | Perun's name |  | many local phrases and imprecations | still |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **come** | past | the introduction of Christianity into Slavonic lands |  |  |  | to a end |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **name** |  | Perun |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **introduce** |  |  | Christianity |  | Slavonic lands |  |  | nom introduction «act transitive»: of=patient into=place |
| 5 | **worship** |  | Perun's divinity |  |  |  |  |  | nom worship «act intransitive»: of=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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