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title: Taking Russia alone, there are collections of magic formulas, ceremo… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Taking Russia alone, there are collections of magic formulas, ceremonial songs of Pagan origin, volumes of traditional ballads; and the ancient munic has also been recorded. Who acts: collections, Pagan origin. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 1, with its dependen
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 78

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Taking Russia alone, there are collections of magic formulas, ceremonial songs of Pagan origin, volumes of traditional ballads; and the ancient munic has also been recorded.

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**Who acts:** collections, Pagan origin · **What happens:** take, be, record, sing · **To what, where:** Russia, ancient munic

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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 (collections, Pagan origin), 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:pg62509:1:79
# text = Taking Russia alone, there are collections of magic formulas, ceremonial songs of Pagan origin, volumes of traditional ballads; and the ancient munic has also been recorded.
1	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	collections	collection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	formulas	formula	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	ceremonial	ceremonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Pagan	pagan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	volumes	volume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ballads	ballad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	munic	munic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	also	also	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund |  |  | Russia |  |  | alone *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument russia=Destination |
| 2 | **does** | present | collections of magic formulas and ceremonial songs of Pagan origin and volumes of traditional ballads |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **record** | present · perfect · passive |  | the ancient munic |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **sing** |  | Pagan origin |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication 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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