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title: Though it has been rigorously repressed by the Russian Government, i… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Though it has been rigorously repressed by the Russian Government, it is still spoken by more than twenty millions of people. Who acts: Russian Government, twenty millions. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Russian Fairy Tales, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Russian Fairy Tales, sentence 19

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Though it has been rigorously repressed by the Russian Government, it is still spoken by more than twenty millions of people.

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**Who acts:** Russian Government, twenty millions · **What happens:** repress, speak · **To what, where:** Sea · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Russian Fairy Tales. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russian Government, twenty millions), 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:pg29672:1:19
# text = Though it has been rigorously repressed by the Russian Government, it is still spoken by more than twenty millions of people.
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	rigorously	rigorously	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	repressed	repress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	19	advmod	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:agent	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repress** | present · perfect · passive | the Russian Government | Sea |  |  |  | rigorously *property* | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · passive | twenty millions of people | Sea |  |  | still |  | 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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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