Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 26

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.

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

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.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 stage	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 stage	det
3	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 arise	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 disorganization	case
5	disorganization	disorganization	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stage	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 custom	case
7	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 custom	amod
8	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 disorganization	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stage	punct
10	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tales	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 folk	punct
12	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 arise	nsubj
13	arise	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 them	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 them	cc
16	into	into	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 arise	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 transmitted	punct
19	transmitted	transmit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 arise	conj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 orally	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 orally	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 orally	cop
23	orally	orally	ADV	_	19 transmitted	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 creep	cc
25	under	under	ADP	_	27 ban	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ban	det
27	ban	ban	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 creep	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 Church	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Church	det
30	Church	Church	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 ban	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 contaminations	punct
32	contaminations	contamination	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 creep	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 sorts	case
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 sorts	det
35	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 contaminations	nmod
36	creep	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 orally	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 etymologies	punct
38	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	41 etymologies	case
39	as	as	ADP	_	38 such	fixed
40	mistaken	mistaken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 etymologies	amod
41	etymologies	etymology	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 transmitted	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 memories	punct
43	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 memories	amod
44	memories	memory	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 etymologies	appos
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 history	case
46	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 history	amod
47	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 memories	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 reminiscences	punct
49	reminiscences	reminiscence	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 etymologies	conj
50	of	of	ADP	_	54 songs	case
51	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 songs	amod
52	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 songs	compound
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	52 folk	punct
54	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 reminiscences	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 legend	punct
56	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 legend	amod
57	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 songs	conj
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 morals	cc
59	morals	moral	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 legend	conj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 songs	punct
61	etc.	etc.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	41 etymologies	conj

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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.

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 26

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 26