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title: The great national divinities were proscribed and submerged; some of… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The great national divinities were proscribed and submerged; some of their features reappearing in the legendary feats of the saints. Who acts: features, divinities. 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 23

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The great national divinities were proscribed and submerged; some of their features reappearing in the legendary feats of the saints.

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**Who acts:** features, divinities · **What happens:** proscribe, submerge, reappear, feature · **To what, where:** great national divinities, legendary feats

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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 (features, divinities), 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:pg62509:1:24
# text = The great national divinities were proscribed and submerged; some of their features reappearing in the legendary feats of the saints.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	divinities	divinity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	proscribed	proscribe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	submerged	submerge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	reappearing	reappear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	legendary	legendary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	feats	feat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	saints	saint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **proscribe** | past · passive |  | the great national divinities |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **submerge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **reappear** | gerund | divinities's features *not said here* |  |  | the legendary feats of the saints |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in feat=Location |
| 4 | **feature** |  | divinities *= divinity* |  |  |  |  |  | nom feature «cognition transitive»: poss=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 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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