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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 47

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Then took place, as had occurred before in other countries, the merging of numerous portions of the old faith in the new, the transferring of many of the attributes of the old gods to the sacred personages of the new religion.

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**Who acts:** numerous portions · **What happens:** take, occur, merge · **To what, where:** place, other countries

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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 (numerous portions), 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:pg22373:57:47
# text = Then took place, as had occurred before in other countries, the merging of numerous portions of the old faith in the new, the transferring of many of the attributes of the old gods to the sacred personages of the new religion.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	occurred	occur	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	merging	merging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	portions	portion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	transferring	transferring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	attributes	attribute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	personages	personage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past |  | place |  |  | then | the merging of numerous portions of the old faith in the new transferring of the many attributes of the old gods to the sacred personages *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 2 | **occur** | past · perfect |  |  |  | other countries |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before country=Location |
| 3 | **merge** |  | numerous portions of the old faith in the new transferring of the many attributes of the old gods to the sacred personages of the new religion |  |  |  |  |  | nom merging «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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