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title: _ One of the symbols of paganism in the early ballads of Russia. — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ One of the symbols of paganism in the early ballads of Russia. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 22

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\_ One of the symbols of paganism in the early ballads of Russia.

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**To what, where:** One

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg62509:40:22
# text = _ One of the symbols of paganism in the early ballads of Russia.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
2	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	symbols	symbol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	paganism	paganism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ballads	ballad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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