--- title: Russia is a country where artistic development began very late; wher… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Russia is a country where artistic development began very late; where popular lore was conserved with little alteration owing to the immensities of the country, the primitiveness of the people, and the punctiliousness of the compilers. Who acts: Russia, artistic development, little alteration. A sen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/1/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/1/) / 17 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 17 Russia is a country where artistic development began very late; where popular lore was conserved with little alteration owing to the immensities of the country, the primitiveness of the people, and the punctiliousness of the compilers. **Who acts:** Russia, artistic development, little alteration · **What happens:** be, begin, conserve, owe · **To what, where:** country, popular lore, immensities This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, 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 (Russia, artistic development, little alteration), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:1:18 # text = Russia is a country where artistic development began very late; where popular lore was conserved with little alteration owing to the immensities of the country, the primitiveness of the people, and the punctiliousness of the compilers. 1 Russia Russia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 8 advmod _ _ 6 artistic artistic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 development development NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 9 very very ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 12 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 16 advmod _ _ 13 popular popular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 lore lore NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 conserved conserve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 alteration alteration NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 owing owe VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 acl _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 immensities immensity NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 primitiveness primitiveness NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 punctiliousness punctiliousness NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 compilers compiler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Russia | a country | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **begin** | past | artistic development | | | | | late *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **conserve** | past · passive | | popular lore | | | | with little alteration and the primitiveness of the people; the punctiliousness of the compilers *obl* | tree rules | | 4 | **owe** | gerund | little alteration and the primitiveness of the people *not said here* | | | | | to the immensities of the country *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to immensity=Goal | 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. **Text:** «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/1/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/1/18/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/1/)