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title: At this stage of disorganization of local custom, folk-tales arise,… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At this stage of disorganization of local custom, folk-tales arise, and into them, transmitted as they are orally and under the ban of the Church, contaminations of all sorts creep, such as mistaken etymologies, faint memories of real history, reminiscences of lost folk-songs, Christian legend and m
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 26

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At this stage of disorganization of local custom, folk-tales arise, and into them, transmitted as they are orally and under the ban of the Church, contaminations of all sorts creep, such as mistaken etymologies, faint memories of real history, reminiscences of lost folk-songs, Christian legend and morals, etc.

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**Who acts:** folk tales, TALES, contaminations, lost folk songs · **What happens:** arise, transmit, be, creep, lose, disorganize · **To what, where:** stage, ban, local custom, Church, sorts

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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 (folk tales, TALES, contaminations, lost folk songs), 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:pg62509:1:27
# text = At this stage of disorganization of local custom, folk-tales arise, and into them, transmitted as they are orally and under the ban of the Church, contaminations of all sorts creep, such as mistaken etymologies, faint memories of real history, reminiscences of lost folk-songs, Christian legend and morals, etc.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	disorganization	disorganization	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	arise	arise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	transmitted	transmit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	orally	orally	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
25	under	under	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ban	ban	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	contaminations	contamination	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	creep	creep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	41	case	_	_
39	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	fixed	_	_
40	mistaken	mistaken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	etymologies	etymology	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	appos	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	reminiscences	reminiscence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
51	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	amod	_	_
52	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	conj	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	morals	moral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
61	etc.	etc.	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	41	conj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | present | folk tales |  |  | this stage of disorganization of local custom |  | into cults *= cult* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at stage=Location |
| 2 | **transmit** | participle | folk tales *not said here* |  |  |  |  | such mistaken etymologies and reminiscences of lost folk songs and Christian legend and morals and etc. | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | TALES *= tale* |  |  |  |  | orally *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **creep** | present | contaminations of all sorts |  |  | the ban of the Church |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under ban=Trajectory |
| 5 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **disorganize** |  |  | local custom |  |  |  |  | nom disorganization «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **ban** |  |  | the Church |  |  |  |  | nom ban «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **contaminate** |  |  | all sorts |  |  |  |  | nom contamination «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **reminisce** |  | lost folk songs and Christian legend and morals |  |  |  |  |  | nom reminiscence «cognition intransitive»: of=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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