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description: [49] The final paragraph of one of the variants of this time-honored jest is quaint, concluding as it does, by way of sting, with a highly popular Russian saw. Who acts: 49, paragraph, honored jest. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCT
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 23

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\[49\] The final paragraph of one of the variants of this time-honored jest is quaint, concluding as it does, by way of sting, with a highly popular Russian saw.

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**Who acts:** 49, paragraph, honored jest · **What happens:** honor, be, conclude, do, vary

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (49, paragraph, honored jest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:15:23
# text = [49] The final paragraph of one of the variants of this time-honored jest is quaint, concluding as it does, by way of sting, with a highly popular Russian saw.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	49	49	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	paragraph	paragraph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	variants	variant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	honored	honor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	jest	jest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	quaint	quaint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	concluding	conclude	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
33	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	saw	saw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **honor** | participle |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | 49 |  |  |  |  | quaint *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **conclude** | gerund | 49 *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | present | paragraph |  |  |  |  | by way of sting; with a popular Russian saw | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **vary** |  | this honored jest |  |  |  |  |  | nom variant «event 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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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