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description: As in his Pagan myths, the Slav never advanced beyond inchoate conceptions of Nature, he neither philosophized like the Hindu, nor created types of pure grace like the Greek, nor beautiful fancies, like the Celt. Who acts: Slav. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 1,
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 49

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As in his Pagan myths, the Slav never advanced beyond inchoate conceptions of Nature, he neither philosophized like the Hindu, nor created types of pure grace like the Greek, nor beautiful fancies, like the Celt.

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**Who acts:** Slav · **What happens:** not advance, philosophize, create, conceive, type · **To what, where:** types, Nature, pure grace

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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 (Slav), 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:pg62509:1:50
# text = As in his Pagan myths, the Slav never advanced beyond inchoate conceptions of Nature, he neither philosophized like the Hindu, nor created types of pure grace like the Greek, nor beautiful fancies, like the Celt.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	Pagan	pagan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Slav	Slav	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	advanced	advance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	inchoate	inchoate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	conceptions	conception	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Nature	Nature	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	philosophized	philosophize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Hindu	Hindu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	25	cc	_	_
25	created	create	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
26	types	type	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	like	like	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Greek	Greek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	36	cc	_	_
35	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	fancies	fancy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	like	like	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Celt	Celt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **advance** | past | the Slav |  |  |  |  | as nature's Pagan myths; beyond inchoate conceptions of Nature | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **philosophize** | past | Slav |  |  |  |  | like the Hindu; neither *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **create** | past | the Slav *not said here* | types of pure grace like the Greek |  |  |  | like the Celt; beautiful fancies *obl* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent type=Result |
| 4 | **conceive** |  |  | Nature |  |  |  |  | nom conception «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **type** |  |  | pure grace like the Greek |  |  |  |  | nom type «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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