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title: The Slav peoples conserved primitive Aryan customs almost up to the… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Slav peoples conserved primitive Aryan customs almost up to the middle of the nineteenth century; and then these were industriously and conscientiously compiled. Who acts: Slav peoples. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 77

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The Slav peoples conserved primitive Aryan customs almost up to the middle of the nineteenth century; and then these were industriously and conscientiously compiled.

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**Who acts:** Slav peoples · **What happens:** conserve, compile · **To what, where:** primitive Aryan customs, these

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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 peoples), 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:pg62509:1:78
# text = The Slav peoples conserved primitive Aryan customs almost up to the middle of the nineteenth century; and then these were industriously and conscientiously compiled.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Slav	Slav	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	conserved	conserve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	primitive	primitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Aryan	Aryan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	nineteenth	nineteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
20	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
22	industriously	industriously	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	conscientiously	conscientiously	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	compiled	compile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conserve** | past | the Slav peoples | primitive Aryan customs |  |  |  | up the middle of the nineteenth century | tree rules |
| 2 | **compile** | past · passive |  | these |  |  | then | conscientiously, industriously *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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