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title: It is evident that the traditions from which the popular conception… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is evident that the traditions from which the popular conception of the ghostly enemy has been evolved must have been of a complex and even conflicting character. Who acts: many, traditions. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 134

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It is evident that the traditions from which the popular conception of the ghostly enemy has been evolved must have been of a complex and even conflicting character.

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**Who acts:** many, traditions · **What happens:** be, evolve, conflict, conceive · **To what, where:** popular conception, character, ghostly enemy

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many, traditions), 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:pg22373:59:134
# text = It is evident that the traditions from which the popular conception of the ghostly enemy has been evolved must have been of a complex and even conflicting character.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	evident	evident	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	conception	conception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	ghostly	ghostly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	evolved	evolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	cop	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	complex	complex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	conflicting	conflict	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
28	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | many |  |  |  |  | evident *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **evolve** | present · perfect · passive |  | the popular conception of the ghostly enemy |  |  |  | from the traditions | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: subject=Product from which=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | must · perfect | the traditions |  |  |  |  | of a complex | tree rules |
| 4 | **conflict** | gerund | the traditions *not said here* | character |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **conceive** |  |  | the ghostly enemy |  |  |  |  | nom conception «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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