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title: When Christianity transformed the face of the world, it necessarily… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When Christianity transformed the face of the world, it necessarily left much below the surface unaffected. Who acts: Christianity, face. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 22

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When Christianity transformed the face of the world, it necessarily left much below the surface unaffected.

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**Who acts:** Christianity, face · **What happens:** transform, leave · **To what, where:** face, surface

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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 (Christianity, face), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:1:23
# text = When Christianity transformed the face of the world, it necessarily left much below the surface unaffected.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	transformed	transform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	much	much	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	below	below	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	unaffected	unaffected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **transform** | past | Christianity | the face of the world |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
| 2 | **leave** | past | face |  |  | the surface |  | necessarily, unaffected *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent below surface=Location |

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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 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.

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